Can people accept that two conflicting things can be true at once?

[Kaneki05]

Seems like a simple yes right? But I think a big problem is a lot of people aren't. They jump to conclusions based on one but not the other.

[FreyaRed]

You mean hypocrisy? Some people are hypocrites but they don't believe in things they express.

Otherwise there is Schroedinger's cat that is dead and alive at same moment according to quantum mechanics .

[Kaneki05]

I mean such example of 'I love her and hate her', 'I dislike guns, I own guns'
A person who struggles to accept these can both be true, would jump to 'You must like guns since you own them' or 'You don't really love her if you hate her'
Which at that point is them creating a fallacy but so many it seems to struggle with understanding that.

So no not hypocrital, more the people who don't understand would think it's hypocrital while creating their own fallacy to make it black and white rather than look at the naunce.

[sage2021]

I've been in situations where we both agreed that we were both right. That happens sometimes.

[sage2021]

Thank you for the MHO 🙂🧡

[goaded]

Can you give an example?

I mean, "conflicting" means at least one is not true. That's why they conflict.

[Kaneki05]

No it doesn't, here's a simple example 'I do not like pizza yet I ate pizza yesterday' this conflicts yet it doesn't mean the person suddenly likes pizza or they lied. .
Another 'I don't like guns but I own several.' longs if reasoning exists you'll get seemingly contradictory points however it doesn't mean the other isn't true, there is further context to why.
That's very basic but it can get way more complicated, even hypocritical but not really cause to be actually so you'd have to not understand your own reasoning.
And I'll quote 'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function' because this applies further into one's mind.

Its the difference between a robot programmed to do one action and only think of that action, and a human who can bring several actions contrary to each other.

[goaded]

But sometimes we eat or do things we don't like. I don't see a contradiction there.

There's the wave-particle duality shown by the double slit experiment, but that's just weird.

The Fitzgerald quote goes on to give an example: "to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise" just means that you have hope, so it's not hopeless.

[Kaneki05]

That's my point, it's not a contradiction. It's simply conflicting but doesn't make the other untrue.
But many would see it as 'Oh you own guns you must like them' therefore jumping to a conclusion.
And no the determination of wanting something to change also doesn't mean you have hope.
Thus you gave me an example yourself of doing what I'm about.

[Kaneki05]

Here's another simple example 'I love her, and I hate her' these conflict since they're opposites however both can be true

[goaded]

Well, that's easy.

[MrChinaski]

Welcome to my life.

[MrChinaski]

But I agree. A lot of people struggle with this. Most people, maybe?

[MrChinaski]

"Do you think all of your beliefs are true?"
"Of course. That's why I believe them."

[lightbulb27]

yes Im often "both and"... because some truth is perspective.