Someone once tried to tell me their are no absolutes in the universe when it came to beliefs in regards to philosophy and or religion. I corrected them, without a long explanation, the answer to that question is mathematics. The one universal language in helping understand almost everything.
One of the most fundamentally overlooked pieces of mathematics is non mutual exclusivity or in general something that is not mutually exclusive. This holds some basis in quantum mechanics, artificial intelligence, compression, information theory, as well as almost everything people encounter in daily life but just don’t know how to resolve.
The best non-mathematical definition that I’ve come across that suits the above for me, would be:
“If two things are not mutually exclusive, it means the existence and occurrence of one does not necessarily mean the other cannot coexist.”
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