Showing posts with label symmetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label symmetry. Show all posts

Monday, 29 December 2025

Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions

On the fifth day of Antonym Christmas, the Internet gave to me:
Big feeling wheel!




Rather than alt-texting this complex diagram, I'll encourage you to click on the caption and read the webpage it came from.
Read more about this diagram here.


Goodness, it took me a long time to find a version of this diagram online that spelled ecstasy correctly.

Anyhow, I like thinking about the oppositions here: trust is the opposite of disgust;  annoyance is the opposite of apprehension; serenity is the opposite of pensiveness. Love is the opposite of remorse.

 

Friday, 26 December 2025

The opposite of a great truth (Niels Bohr)

On the second day of Antonym Christmas, the Internet gave to me: 

A questionable Niels Bohr quote.



A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a great truth.

—Niels Bohr

Tuesday, 3 May 2016

Black and white aren't opposites?

Interesting headline: Black and White Aren't Opposites After All




The science is very interesting, but also interesting is the assumption that being asymmetrical disqualifies something from being an opposite. I can see why they'd say that, but I can't think of a single opposite that isn't asymmetrical when you stop to think about it.