Something that is worth for many different things. That has many different values or meanings.
A polyvalent object is one that can be used as many different things. A polyvalent emotion is one that you can show in many different situations and get favorable results.
From Ancient Greek "poly: many" and Latin "valens, valentis: that is worth it"
- What a polyvalent chair, you can use it as a chair to sit and as a table to put things on it.
- This is a very polyvalent dialogue, it can be interpreted in many different ways.
18👍 3👎
A quality in which a dialectic must exist in infinity^infinity proportions.
For instance infinity vs. uncountability.
Polyvalence separates Eastern thought from Western thought which tends toward monodeterminism.
For instance polyvalence stipulates that the world must exist as uncountable syncretisms of good and evil.
Monodeterminism would stipulate that reality must be constituted of ONE syncretism, be it good vs. evil, poor vs. rich, or color vs. time.
A quality in which a dialectic must exist in infinity^infinity proportions.
For instance infinity vs. uncountability.
Polyvalence separates Eastern thought from Western thought which tends toward monodeterminism.
For instance polyvalence stipulates that the world must exist as uncountable syncretisms of good and evil.
Monodeterminism would stipulate that reality must be be made of a SINGLE dialectic or syncretism be it good vs. evil, countability vs. uncountability, or color vs. time.