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When two of your beliefs conflict, the contradiction itself tells you something important. It reveals that your knowledge has grown beyond the neat consistency of a closed system and is encountering the productive tensions that drive genuine understanding. The discomfort of holding conflicting beliefs is not a problem to eliminate — it is a signal to investigate.
Thesis and antithesis can sometimes be resolved through synthesis that preserves truth from both.
Not resolving a contradiction but using its tension to generate energy is a valid strategy.
Resolving contradictions often requires updating one or both of the schemas involved. The contradiction is not a flaw in reality — it is a flaw in the model. And the resolution is not choosing a side. It is evolving the schema until the contradiction dissolves into a more accurate representation of how things actually work.