Jim Devine asked:
speaking of which, who was it who defined an intellectual as someone who could maintain two contradictory ideas in his/her head at the same time? and isn't that the same as double-think, as Orwell defined it?
Yes it is. But to *maintain two [valid] contradictory ideas in [one's] head at the same time in order to resolve them dialectically* is the mark of the greatest philosophers from Herakleitos to Plato to Nagarjuna to Hegel to Marx... Shane Mage "Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus." Herakleitos of Ephesos
