--- Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...> wrat:
> I think that with hands, it's just a question
> of
> laterality. You might have two right - or two
> left -
> hands ans still be able to lift a washing
> machine,
Maybe, but mere laterality is not the point. It's
not just two random hands - it is the rightleft
of a person together as a unit. This is why such
body parts often get dual numbers to begin with.
> though maybe incomfortably, but two men - or
> two women
> - will never (until further biological
> progress) make
> a child, which is the reason for which there
> happens to be males and females.
Quite. Hence why nimawiro is a dual: it's the
manwoman together as a unit that make babies.
> Yin and yang are opposite but complementary,
> one
> cannot imagine yin without yang and
> reciprocally, but
> you can imagine having both hands (or even half
> a
> dozen) on the same side of your body.
Quite. It's the pairing of opposites or
complementalities that make for the dual in these
instances.
> It's not the
> same kind of complementarity. Yin is NOT(Yang),
> left hand is not NOT(right hand).
Yes. It's the two together that make a paired
unit - a dual object.
Padraic.
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