The presence of these paradoxes, or contradictions thus make it untenable and thus not a science

ABSURDITIES OR MEANINGLESSNESS OR IRRATIONALITY IS NO HINDERANCE TO SOMETHING BEING ‘TRUE’: RATIONALITY: OR FREEDOM FROM CONTRADICTION OR PARADOX IS NOT A NECESSARY AND/OR SUFFICENT CONDITION FOR ‘TRUTH’ : MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EXAMPLES BY COLIN LESLIE DEAN 2 ABSURDITIES OR MEANINGLESSNESS OR IRRATIONALITY IS NO HINDERANCE TO SOMETHING BEING ‘TRUE’: RATIONALITY: OR FREEDOM FROM CONTRADICTION OR PARADOX IS NOT A NECESSARY AND/OR SUFFICENT CONDITION FOR ‘TRUTH’: MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EXAMPLES BY COLIN LESLIE DEAN GAMAHUCHER PRESS, WEST GEELONG ,AUSTRALIA, 2003 3 EXAMPLES FROM MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE SHOW THE DEAN THEOREM CONTRADICTION, OR INCONSISTENCY WITHIN A VIEW AS WELL AS MUTUAL CONTRADICTION, OR INCOMENSURABLITY BETWEEN VIEWS DOES NOT PRECLUDE THE VIEW OR BOTH VIEWS FROM BEING ‘TRUE’ 4 CONCLUSION The anthropologist Levy-Bruhl argued that primitive peoples were pre-logical i.e. had a mentality that “… does not bind itself down … to 1avoiding contradictions” . And Freud said that neurotics did not avoid 2mutual contradiction. Now we shall see that contradiction, or inconsistency is no hindrance to a view being ‘true’ –whether ‘truth’ is conceived from an instrumental, or coherence, or correspondence (etc) perspective. We shall see that some of the most successful theories in mathematics and science in predicting events are in fact paradoxical or self-contradictory. This being ...