The law
The law is necessary but not sufficient.
Labels: thought
Obviously sound is not to be taken as the negation of sound or of speech, any more than the seed is the negation of the plant. Sound and silence is a matter of potentialities and realizations. It would be vain to deny that there is opposition between these, but as long as one always has reference to the other and that reference is preserved, they play into each other's hands. So there is no negation of one by the other. There is negation, however, in frivolous speech, which has no reference to silence and so prevents valid speech or sound.
—William Bronk
—William Bronk
Friday, July 22, 2022
