Intentionally and Unintentionally. On Both, A and Non-A, in Neutrosophy

Abstract

The paper presents a fresh new start on the neutrality of neutrosophy in that "both A and Non-A" as an alternative to describe Neuter-A in that we conceptualize things in both intentional and unintentional background. This unity of opposites constitutes both objective world and subjective world. The whole induction of such argument is based on the intensive study on Buddhism and Daoism including I-ching. In addition, a framework of contradiction oriented learning philosophy inspired from the Later Trigrams of King Wen in I-ching is meanwhile presented. It is shown that although A and Non-A are logically inconsistent, but they are philosophically consistent in the sense that Non-A can be the unintentionally instead of negation that leads to confusion. It is also shown that Buddhism and Daoism play an important role in neutrosophy, and should be extended in the way of neutrosophy to all sciences according to the original intention of neutrosophy.

7 pages, 2 figures. Presented to the First International Conference on Neutrosophy, Neutrosophic Logic, Set, and Probability, University of New Mexico, Gallup, December 1-3, 2001. To appear in the Proceedings of the Conference, 2002