“The African universe is personalized, not objectified. Time is experienced. There is no infinite abstract and oppressive future; it grows organically from the past and present. Value is placed on ‘being’ rather than ‘doing.’ The universe is understood through phenomenal interaction, which produces powerful symbols and images, which in turn communicate truths. ‘Diunital logic’ indicates that in African thought a thing can be both A and not A at the same time. Though [Vernon J.] Dixon does not say so explicitly, what he calls ‘diunital logic’ can be understood as the recognition and affirmation of the ambiguity and multidimensionality of phenomenal reality. What is contradictory in Euro-American Aristotelian logic is not contradictory in African thought….” Marimba Ani “Yurugu: An African-Centered Critique of European Cultural Thought and Behavior” Page 97
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