Perfection

The perfection characterizes a to be or a ideal Objet , i.e. which joins together all the qualities and does not have a defect.

Religion

According to Thomas d' Aquin, alone its God is absolutely perfect in the order of all things.

Etymology

The word perfection comes from Latin per - ficio , ficio coming from the verb facere : to make and per meaning literally until the end . Perfect thus means what is made jusq' with the end, completely .

The Paradox of the perfection

There exists a reasoning aiming at showing that the perfection does not exist:

  • Premise 1: A perfect object has all qualities,

  • Prémisse 2: If an object is perfect, then it does not have the property to be imperfect,
  • Prémisse 3: If it misses a property with a perfect object, it is imperfect,
  • Conclusion: There is no perfect object.

This Raisonnement is a Sophisme because:

  1. It supposes that to have all the qualities and to have all the properties is the same thing. From there, it can affirm that not to have the property is an imperfection. However, there are a difference between the possession of a quality (for example the Bonté) and that in a property (that to be sadistic for example).

  2. It supposes that the perfection is the possession of all the properties. All the properties not being compatible (or compossibles), the perfection thus defined is in oneself impossible (before even the exposure of this reasoning which highlights it).
  3. Lastly, it regards the perfection as a property of object, whereas the perfection is rather a property of Concept.

Moreover, one can note that this type of reasoning is contingent on a structure which one calls in mathematics " reasoning by the absurde". However, to apply this type of reasoning is never valid for problems out of the field of formal logic. I.e. in a structure where insertions are not strict and absolute. What explains the many lexical paradoxes. Indeed, speech of perfection here, is assimilated to define a unit which engloble all. However a unit which definite all, thus has also anything: i.e. the empty set! One is thus led to formulate a paradox which does not want in fact anything of saying. This is simply due to the fact that the definitions of the language does not make it possible to rigorously define (or at least allows the confusion and the assimilations of ideas) the concepts starting.

See too

  • Logical
  • Intuitionalism

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