ABSTRACT
The logic of the One is dualistic, demanding a process of reasoning that absolutely and certainly separates truth from falsehood, just as it demands that God be clearly and absolutely distinguished from not-God. It should be no surprise therefore that scientific reasoning, pulled like a brilliant thread from the fabric of monotheistic teaching and learning, makes this same demand, although its orthodoxies lie more in method than in conclusions. The very point of early modern scientific reasoning was to pursue the ‘‘truth’’ by separating fact from fiction, an estrangement that relied on the prior assumption that the two are separable. While the logic of the One abides the notion of inclusive truth, meaning that different perceptions of truth can be accommodated, truth ‘‘itself’’—that to which the perceptions presumably point-primly draws its veil of isolation and purity when brazen fiction or falsehood saunter by. The problem with this binary structure of exclusion is that it serves the orthodoxy to which Copernicus was willing to bow more than the common sense which Nietzsche lamented. So-called true things are after all always promiscuously involved with the so-called false, just as ‘‘good prose is written only face to face with poetry: all of its attractions depend on the way in which poetry is continually avoided and contradicted.’’3
