Mystical Paradoxes from the Viewpoint of Fuzzy Logic and Thought

Abstract

Discussing the linguistic and logical nature of mystical paradoxes, analyzing the content of such statements, and opening their hidden secrets, is a new perspective of historical and scientific confronting to this phenomenon. Almost all the works that have been written for or against these paradoxes, where they are dealt with rational denial or defend of the paradoxes and there are signs of some sorts of logical justification or un-justification to deny or accept these words and expressions, by rationality and logic they mean Aristotelian rationality and Aristotle two-valued logic. Although the problems stem from contradictory or paradoxical nature of the expressions, it is un-reasonable to resolve these problems in Aristotelian logic but we need another logic. Fuzzy logic is such a logic, to which, as we shall show, the defenders of paradoxes unconsciously have indicated. But the narrow limits of intellectual peripatetic framework and Aristotelian logic and adherence to their laws and rules throughout the history, have not allowed thinkers, even the most prominent researchers in this field including Stace, to get rid of the dark and narrow framework of this logic

Keywords

• mystical Paradoxes
• MYSTICISM
• fuzzy logic
• Aristotelian logic