Contradictory perceptions can both be true simultaneously

Evidence

Esu said to them: ‘I have taught you. Two truths can both be true. The world is not always one way. Sometimes the cap is red. Sometimes the cap is white. Both eyes have seen rightly. The trouble was not in the eyes. The trouble was in the certainty.’ — , A Year of World Stories, 4077

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the epistemological lesson in the Esu tale and to this book’s recurring interest in how oral traditions encode philosophy; also echoes perspectival truths in the reviewer’s work on Deep Listening and figure-ground perception. — connects to: Partial perspectives each capture truth and yet miss the whole — , A Year of World Stories, 2242; A conjuncture fuses distinct contradictions of different tempos — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1094; A self-consistent philosophy can be completely false while inconsistent systems hold truth — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2213 (+14 more)

Related

• Consciousness is contradictory and common sense is not unified (similarity 0.85)
• Two honest witnesses can report opposite truths about the same event (similarity 0.83)

Broader Connections

• Two honest witnesses can report opposite truths about the same event #exemplifies (0.80) — , A Year of World Stories, 14793
• Audiences can decode the same message in a globally contrary or oppositional way #exemplifies (0.75)
• A self-consistent philosophy can be completely false while inconsistent systems hold truth #corroborates (0.70) — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, 2213
• True thinking requires an internal dialogue among conflicting viewpoints. #expands (0.60) — Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life An Antidote to Chaos, 727
• Shifting focalization across protagonists deliberately produces uneven perspective #exemplifies (0.60)
• A conjuncture fuses distinct contradictions of different tempos #exemplifies (0.55) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 1094