At 07:45 04-06-2002 -0400, Harrison Owen wrote:
Confusion, it seems to me, is the intellectual equivalent of chaos, and it has the positive virtue of opening space in the mind by clearing out strongly held notions in order to permit more adequate ones to emerge. In a word, confusion might well be the essential first step to wisdom.
Agreed. And I suppose that the opposite of confusion is...certainty. I wonder if certainty (from both sides) is not the cause of wars. If it is so, maybe to open the space for peace one must allow the parts to get a bit confused about their certaintiesÂ… Artur * * ========================================================== [email protected] ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of [email protected], Visit: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html
