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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malachi_rc" data-source="post: 1658883" data-attributes="member: 19015">but thats the thing, you dont' defind x in terms of y and y interms of x.  you must defind one with something else, and then the other in terms of the first one.  heat, for example, is measured in the motion of atoms, therefore cold is measured by how slowly they move.  same with light, only theres a measure called luminosity, and darkness is just a low amount of luminosity (don't exactly remember howthat one works, I'm a physicist, but its been a while since i've studdied that).   I brought up this idea, somewhat, and I admit, I don't like it entirely for good/evil, because it implys that evil can just be measuered by the smallness of the good in it, it was mainly an example to show that something, to some extent, can be defind by its oppositeIts not a perfect representation with good and evil, esp. without a measurable thing to compare, but I like C.S.Lewis alot, so i gotta defend him <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /> Also, I want to agree. the fact that we have had no flames or trolls on this topic staggers the mind.  I love the EN forums, because it can happen here. Group hug everybody   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

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