Contradictions and language
The experience of life is beset with contradiction, even paradoxes. To say this is banal yet it touches the deepest parts of human experience. Such contradictions can be a source of internal conflict and unhappiness. We can refer to this fact of our lives with folk truths and clichés or we can explore it using analytic philosophy and the demanding languages of mathematical and philosophical logic. I have often thought that there is a contradiction at the very heart of our exi