Why does this thread exist?

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Final-Fan said:

Xeta said:

Final-Fan said:
Your sig is self-contradictory pseudo-"deep" claptrap. (So, mission accomplished I presume?)

Care to tell me how it contradicts itself? I specifically phrased it so that it does not.

Chaos: A definite truth is that it is the only one. Only in absolute uncertainty is there certainty. 

How can your uncertainty be absolute if you are not certain of it?  If you are certain of your uncertainty, how can it be absolute? 

There is nothing self-contradictory at first glance about the allegation that chaos is the only definite truth.  Although ... is "definite" a good word to apply to chaos?  Hmm...

Actually, in the original form I envisioned the statement, I did not use the word "chaos". I only added it once I realized what the statement was describing.

As for why the statement looks so awkward, it is because it is the only way to declare a universal rule that has one exception. In other words, it is a self contradiction to state that everything is uncertain, just like it would be to say all generalizations are bad (or whatever). The way I phrased it actually eliminates this by declaring the statement as the one exception. I realized the reason for the contradiction - in some twisted way, the realization that all things are and forever will be fundamentally uncertain produces its own "certainty" in that fact. The resulting phrasing sounds quite awkward, but it's the only way to approach the issue without thoughtlessly dismissing it as a logical impossibility.

I considered calling it the Law of Chaos but it sounded too pretentious and only added to the confusion, so just put chaos there. My understanding is that chaos is not a polar opposite of order but a creator of it - through shaky, uncertain, chaotic assumptions we can create an illusion of order.