On Contradictions

[sdi]

All embodied incorporeals are affected by passions, [...].

(Corpus Hermeticum XII, as translated by Brian P. Copenhaver.)

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...embodied incorporeals?

Comments

[thinking_turtle]

How about: the previously incorporeal soul becomes affected by passions when it becomes corporeal?

[sdi]

Yeah, that's what G. R. S. Mead's translation says. But you gotta admit the blatant contradiction is pretty funny!