Date: 12 Aug 1998 15:16:54 -0700
From: "Greg Tropea" <greg_tropea-AT-macgate.csuchico.edu>
Subject: RE: binary opposition


The unity of yin and yang is perhaps best thought as the unity of 
complementarity, as of front and back, which are not really opposites.  

I don't think Taoism supports the concept of "central thesis."  Especially in 
the early material, metaphysical-sounding claims are understood to be reports 
of observations, rather than a priori determinations.  

Please pardon the omissions and other deficiencies in these generalities.
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From: postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu on Tue, Aug 11, 1998 5:11
Subject: binary opposition

Isn't the central thesis of Taoism the essential unity of the binary: 
ying and yang?  My main source for this is, of course, Western, an 
introduction by Watts(?).
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