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Coincidence of opposites

Nicholas of Cusa’s doctrine that in God, the infinite, all opposites meet and coincide.

Also: coincidentia oppositorum

Christian mysticism

Cusa taught that the maximum and the minimum, the greatest and the least, coincide in the infinite, as an infinite circle would coincide with a straight line. God is beyond the wall of the coincidence of opposites, where reason cannot follow. The idea has parallels in Daoist and Indian thought.