7 December 2008 - opposite of opposite

Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2008 : 7 December 2008

Paradox of Loose Terminology

Opposition is a form of similarity. An exact opposite, like an image in the mirror, may be nearly the same as its original. So what is the opposite of opposite?

clue:

Compare the well-known proof that all natural numbers are interesting.

take oh take this clue away