Even though it's quite possible for one person to discover and judge, one after the other, the principles capable of invalidating both contradictories of the problem, it remains far easier and more natural for two persons. |
Spontaneously we seek, among the relevant endoxes, those which force us to conclude one of the contradictories, because of the implied concept's properties. |
Self and not-self, subject and object, are not contradictories, but dialectical polarities. |
But in this attack on one of the contradictories, the two speakers more or less give in to the temptation of making personal, right from the start, one of the contradictories of the problem. |
God can make either of them true, but he can't make both of them true, since they are contradictories. |
He entitles this kind of opposition dialectical, and that of contradictories analytical. |