"Getting the wrong end of the 'stick'": on the limitations of language

The 'stick' does not have  an absolute beginning or end unlike the word 'stick'

they are a product of the type of measurement…we know this from 

zeno

quantum theory

there is only a 'stick-in-environment; as there is not a ' hand' but a 'hand of body'
this is a limitation of language... (the excluded middle)

the " beginnings" and "ends" of the stick are fictions

created by the measurement system.

Because the 'stick' is situated in an environment
Unlike the abstract version it cannot exist without it's environment


It is not separate from it in an absolute sense.

What are the limits on the application of  binary measurement systems?

e.g. logics based on an excluded middle

If we are insistent on applying a binary classification system to  a continuum

especially if we feel we are identified with one pole in an either or situation

we appear to have no choice but to assign an absolute negative value to the other pole.

This is likely to lead to conflict…

It is the product of a lack of wisdom of how measuring systems (relatively simple designed abstract systems logics) 

relate to  the systems to which they are being applied  i.e. often to  complex living systems

The fact that the things being measured are of the same type, a type both susceptible to measurement makes them an order of magnitude more similar than the 'difference' implied because of the linguistic category applied…?


To move together as a society-in-nature towards sanity we need to understand this...

 the effectiveness of binary measurement in relation to simple physical constructed systems is clear

however in the context of  complexity such as social disputes  it is not enough...