ABSTRACT
Put differently, Daoist dialectics does not and cannot separate what you call contradictions in
logic and ‘real contrariety’ in social relations. One invariably reflects and shapes the other.
One does not have more ‘realness’ over the other even as one domain (i.e. logic) may be
more abstract than the other (i.e. social praxis or social relations). This principle stems from
the dao’s acceptance of the ontological parity between yin (e.g. wu) and yang (e.g. you).
