Moving on
I believe that many of the disputes about the nature of the human world can be illuminated by an understanding that there are two fundamentally different ‘versions’ delivered to us by the two hemispheres, both of which can have a ring of authenticity about them, and both of which are hugely valuable; but that they stand in opposition to one another
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one hemisphere's idea of truth is likely to be more fruitful than the other's. As we have seen in Part I, the aspect of reality revealed by the left hemisphere must be contextualised by being taken up into the broader, and deeper, overarching vision available to the right hemisphere; alas, when the left hemisphere takes the lead, it leads us astray
... See morethere is the reality that, from any one standpoint, only a partial vision is possible. The opposition of ‘standpoints’ is a way of speaking of difference wrought by context. As Whitehead put it, ‘there are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil’.29 Each truth conceals another, op
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