{"id":10196,"date":"2024-04-02T11:47:45","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T09:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/?p=10196"},"modified":"2025-10-17T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T09:23:48","slug":"atcct-contradiction-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/atcct-contradiction-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"ATC Contradiction Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 10.16%;\">\n<h1><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">ATC<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 89.84%;\">\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>CONTRADICTION AS CONFUSION<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The requirement of coherence does not only apply to statements. The following case appeals to the coherence of feelings (Leslie 1964, [1]); lack of coherence leads to (mental) confusion.<br \/>\nSee <a href=\"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/atc-rules-debate-tsou-yen\/\">Ts&rsquo;ou Yen inaugural program: \u00ab\u00a0<strong>The disputant arranges in sequences different starting-points, so that they do not confuse each other.\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Confucius, <em>Analects<sub>Eno<br \/>\n<\/sub><\/em><strong>12.10<\/strong> <strong>Zizhang asked about [\u2026] discerning confusion. The Master said [\u2026] When one cherishes a person, one wishes him to live; when one hates a person, one wishes him to die \u2013 on the one hand cherishing and wishing him life, while, on the other, hating and wishing him death that is confusion.<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Truly, it is not a matter of riches, Indeed, it is simply about discernment.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The rejection of <a href=\"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/contradiction-fr\/\"><strong>contradiction<\/strong><\/a> is a fundamental feature of Western logic. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/non-contradiction-principle\/\"><strong>non contradiction principle<\/strong><\/a>, it is not possible to support something and its opposite, A and not A: the elementary logical world is made up of stable elements that have stable relationships with each other.<\/p>\n<p>The principle of non-contradiction is the basis of ordinary reasoning, as well as logical and scientific reasoning. In ordinary exchanges we tend to talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/coherence\/\"><strong>coherence<\/strong><\/a>. If the same person has just argued this and now, three minutes later, argues that, and if this and that are contradictory, he owes his interlocutors at least an explanation; if he makes incoherent statements in the same discussion, he destroys the discussion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mental confusion characterises the state of contradiction<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATC CONTRADICTION AS CONFUSION The requirement of coherence does not only apply to statements. The following case appeals to the coherence of feelings (Leslie 1964, [1]); lack of coherence leads to (mental) confusion. See Ts&rsquo;ou Yen inaugural program: \u00ab\u00a0The disputant arranges in sequences different starting-points, so that they do not confuse each other.\u00a0\u00bb Confucius, AnalectsEno [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10196"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12726,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10196\/revisions\/12726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}