There is the
physical and the metaphysical,
the real and the incorporeal,
the abstract and the concrete,
the theoretical and the practical,
the notional and the concrete,
the hypothetical and the proven,
the natural and the supernatural.
That is all that there is.
I would add knowledge and misconceptions here
Truth and falsehoods, as well.
The larger point I am trying to make is that there are categories that things fall into. So, you can prove that something is the one, or at least tends strongly to the one, if it is clearly not the other.
It seems intuitive. But after all, the same thing can be located in different categories for different people with different points of view based on hereditary and acquired factors.
That people categorize it differently, doesn't negate the point that it there are only two categories. Which categorization is "more correct" has to be deliberated.
It's a rhetorical rule, like "the greater and the lesser".
I‘d suggest to reduce them all:
There‘s information or the absence of it.
Maybe with shades of entropy. But not so sure about that.
In the beginning, there was the Word...
Information/nothingness and the further you get away from the information, the deeper the nothingness that surrounds you.
Clinging to the Information is clinging to the Light is clinging to the Good is clinging to the Truth is...
I don‘t particularly like „nothingness“. I like the information theory approach of entropy by Shannon:
There is chaos and order. Both extremes don‘t contain information. But there‘s a sweetspot, walking the Taoist line where chaos and order are in balance to convey information.
