Answer by Michael for The experience of simultaneously holding very different...
While not necessarily a philosophical perspective, a personality trait known as Boundaries of the Mind describes one end of the spectrum -- having thin boundaries -- as perhaps supporting the mentioned...
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The OP offers the following description of simultaneously holding contradictory positions:For example, to simultaneously believe and hold that everything is real (in a sense) and nothing is real (in a...
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From a Skeptical POV, such as Sextus Empiricus' Pyrrhonism, that is just suspension of judgement. Like in quantum reality, in a lot of psychological reality, when you truly do not decide, you get...
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Paradox is actually a key feature of any number of very different philosophical perspectives:Taoism: Yin-Yang, a core concept in traditional Taoism, is all about the underlying unity of seemingly...
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If you are authentic in your experience it reminds of J Krishnamurti (trying to) show the difference between consciousness and it's contents. I am surprised that the other responses lean towards the...
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The traditional romantic English language term of "negative capability", which I believe originated with Keats' criticism of ColeridgeKeats understood Coleridge as searching for a single, higher-order...
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Disclaimer: I am describing here something that's been my personal perception/interpretation/mode of being for many many years. I may not (probably don't) know the correct terminology, or whether this...
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