Logic vs Dialectic (duality, triality or more)?

© 2014 Scientific American, a Division of Nature America, Inc.Children are much more open-minded than adults.  They often come up with things that appear weird from the ”logical” point of view.  They have a natutal ability to think dialectically, but we take that away from them by correcting them. For example, two clearly different (often opposite) things can be ONE for a child. Do we have to condition them into the so called logical thinking of ”yes or no” where one excludes the possibility of the other?

Logical thinking might help organizing our everyday experience.  It certainly underpins our moral norms (”good or bad” and ”right or wrong” etc), and the whole legal system is built on these assumptions…  But isn’t life more about ”yes” AND ”no”, in the same time? Interestingly, quantum physics videos help expanding one’s thinking. Like a mind gym.

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