
PREFACE
PREFACE Reality is a mental construct
Just as a maggot sees “Reality” through its maggot brain We see “Reality” through our monkey (homo-sapiens) brain
The Epistemic Wreckage: Logic, Reality, and the Dean Dilemma
Dean’s paradox(of colin leslie dean) highlights a core discrepancy between logical reasoning and lived reality. Logic insists that between two points lies an infinite set of divisions, making it “impossible” to traverse from start to end. Yet, in practice, the finger does move from the beginning to the end in finite time. This contradiction exposes a gap between the abstract constructs of logic and the observable truths of reality.
• Zeno said motion is impossible dean says motion is possible with the consequence of the dean paradox
•Now for all those who think this means because logic is misaligned with reality philosophers scientists etc cant even start their philosophizing but if you do all you will find is the inevitable more contradictions paradoxes fixes etc –which infact prove the dean paradox
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But
Colin Leslie Dean’s paradox does not merely raise questions about motion, infinity, or abstract reasoning — it detonates the very structure upon which knowledge rests. The dilemma at the heart of Dean’s paradox is deceptively simple but philosophically catastrophic. It confronts us with two untenable horns:
Dilemma: either logic is misaligned –falsifies- with reality and our reality is “true”
or
Reality is false an illusion and our logic is “true”
Either logic is flawed — and thus the rational systems it generates are fundamentally unreliable;
Or reality, as accessed through sensory data, is illusory — and cannot be trusted as a basis for knowledge.
If logic is broken, the consequences are immediate and profound. Logic is the skeleton of science, mathematics, and philosophy; it is the mechanism by which we interpret the world. When logic processes sensory data, it constructs what we understand as “reality.” But if the logic itself is compromised — unable to accommodate something as basic and observable as motion — then the entire edifice of rational knowledge is suspect. The reality it assembles may be a false coherence, a mirage built on faulty axioms. Logic, in this view, falsifies the world rather than illuminates it.
Title | The dean paradox: The Wreckage of Our “Reality”
(Undermining the Perception of an objective “Reality”- Shattering the Frame of the Known) |
Author | Dean, Colin Leslie |
Published | Gamahucher Press, West Geelong, Vic, 2025 |
Pages | 30 |
Subject | philosophy |
ISBN | 9781876347619 |
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