Monism vs Dualism

 

All or Nothing At All

All or nothing at all
Nothing at all
There ain't nothing at all
Nothing at all

Which is NOT all, or the opposite of all.

Yesterday was “All or Nothing” Day, which I missed.  However it does allow me the opportunity to point out that All or Nothing at all, ∞ or 0, is different than All or Its opposite, ∞ or -∞.  The first is monism and there is only one absolute.  The second is dualism and there are two absolutes, one positive and one negative.

The integral of All or Nothing at All is different than the integral of All or The Opposite of All.  The first is also the Cumulative Distribution Function of a normal random distribution, which takes on values between zero and 1, and from -∞ to ∞ has an integral of 1.  The second is the integral of a hyperbolic tangent function which take on values between -1 and 1, and has an integral between -∞ and ∞ of 0. Saying that there are two absolutes is thus fundamentally different than saying that there is only one absolute.