Do you agree with my theory that nothing can exist without its opposite?
2007-04-26 12:03:22 · 11 answers · asked by Zoey 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
If not, why?
2007-04-26 12:10:48 · update #1
Not even vaguely.
I'll take umbrage first of all with your assertion that dark 'exists'. If dark was a thing, you could make more of it. You could move it from place to place. It would have some quality of measurability and tangibility. All of these things are true for light. None of them are true for dark.
You can only make dark by removing light. This is what dark IS. When we say 'dark', all we mean is that there is no light. This supposed dualism is thus just that of existing or not existing.
Your theory, then, is that nothing can exist unless it can also not-exist. Which isn't too informative. And it's not even true on that level.
Consider space. That thing which contains other things. Where is there a place where space does not exist? Such a thing cannot be indicated if it does exist (how do you give directions to something that can't be in a place?) and it's difficult to even imagine. Thus space exists without an opposite.
Dualism is false.
2007-04-26 12:09:35 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Darkness does not exist. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."
2007-04-26 19:48:10 · answer #2 · answered by stagg_walk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dr. Y is good and his answer exists without an opposite. Also, from a theological perspective, God is self-defined as light and existed before all things. Where there is light, darkness flees; but darkness is powerless against light.
2007-04-26 12:35:16 · answer #3 · answered by John 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The light spectrum is filled with and made up of many forms of energy. "Light" & "Dark" are both part of it.
Yes I do agree with you that nothing can exist without its opposite.
Concerning light.... the opposite of it would be "a lack of" which is not the same as "dark".
2007-04-26 13:37:56 · answer #4 · answered by Izen G 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can I Have A Light
2016-12-18 04:04:19 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, except not so much that it "can't" exist without an opposite, but rather, that we recognize its existence via its opposite. This is why I believe in God. Because I first conceive of God (i.e. something that is limitless) due to the fact that I realize myself and other lower forms of life are *not* limitless.
2007-04-26 12:32:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yin and Yang? I agree, although it's a pretty old theory.
2007-04-26 12:11:59 · answer #7 · answered by Lost Poet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, because everything has to have an opposing force to it in order to make it work. Like yin and yang.
2007-04-26 12:20:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Black holes absorb all light due to inmeance gravity... thats how we find them in space.. the darkest space so yes
2007-04-26 12:12:47 · answer #9 · answered by dirtbikepistol 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No where there is light there is dark either man is dark woman is light or humans are light E.T.s are dark something like that IDK
2014-02-13 05:19:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋