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74.2 The Existential Zero
All of human counting, measuring, countering, and assessing come down to the
underlying abstraction that wants to contest two plus two. The deep psychological
need to refute “four” may stem from the obvious strain of anti-authoritarianism that
runs immensely deep through Homo sapiens. And/or it abuts that remonstration
toward all absolutes in Nature. In our nature, it wants not to be ruled by numbers,
confined to the small-minded discoveries of our predecessors, circumscribed by
Paradox: An Essay on the Logic of Truth, Indianapolis: Hackett; Scharp, Kevin, 2015, “Tolerance
and the Multi-Range View of Vagueness”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 90(2):
467–474. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12173; Tye, Michael, 1994, “Sorites Paradoxes and the
Semantics of Vagueness”, Philosophical Perspectives, 8: 189–206. Reprinted in Keefe and Smith
1996: 281–293. doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/2214170, Referenced in, “Sorites Paradox, Jan 17,
1997, Revised Mar 26, 2018, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/
sorites-paradox/, Copyright © 2018 by Dominic Hyde, and Diana Raffman, The Metaphysics
Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, Stanford,
International Standard Serial Number: ISSN 1095–5054
Fig. 74.1 The Pitcher
Plant (Nepenthes
Khasiana) Endangered
Under IUCN
Classification. (Photo
Public Domain)
74.2 The Existential Zero
74.2 The Existential Zero
All of human counting, measuring, countering, and assessing come down to the
underlying abstraction that wants to contest two plus two. The deep psychological
need to refute “four” may stem from the obvious strain of anti-authoritarianism that
runs immensely deep through Homo sapiens. And/or it abuts that remonstration
toward all absolutes in Nature. In our nature, it wants not to be ruled by numbers,
confined to the small-minded discoveries of our predecessors, circumscribed by
Paradox: An Essay on the Logic of Truth, Indianapolis: Hackett; Scharp, Kevin, 2015, “Tolerance
and the Multi-Range View of Vagueness”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 90(2):
467–474. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12173; Tye, Michael, 1994, “Sorites Paradoxes and the
Semantics of Vagueness”, Philosophical Perspectives, 8: 189–206. Reprinted in Keefe and Smith
1996: 281–293. doi:https://doi.org/10.2307/2214170, Referenced in, “Sorites Paradox, Jan 17,
1997, Revised Mar 26, 2018, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/
sorites-paradox/, Copyright © 2018 by Dominic Hyde, and Diana Raffman, The Metaphysics
Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, Stanford,
International Standard Serial Number: ISSN 1095–5054
Fig. 74.1 The Pitcher
Plant (Nepenthes
Khasiana) Endangered
Under IUCN
Classification. (Photo
Public Domain)
74.2 The Existential Zero