(Aug. 19, 2009 6:38 AM)asterisk93 Wrote: So as a last attempt to pin down what I was trying to say, I'll take something that was inscribed in the design of a t-shirt I own. Some may be familiar with "Ordo Ab Chao" or Order and Chaos. If you think about it, the two play off of each other in a vague manner, just like the words "Short" and "long" play through each other. To call a length of string "short" is meaningless unless we have an idea of what "long" is. The same works in reverse. Something cannot be "long" unless there is something short by comparison. A string can be longer than another, in which case, the short string is necessary to classify the long string as "long"
From the little bit I remember from Latin class in high school, "Ordo Ab Chao" means "Order from Chaos." Dunno how much changing "and" to "from" would change what you said though.