Dear
Reader,
I want to share with you, in this blog-entry, the concise “Working
Definition” of the term ‘‘‘Dialectical’’’
from our
forthcoming Encyclopedia Dialectica [E.D.], volume 0,
entitled ‘Encyclopedic Dictionary for a Unified Theory of Universal
Dialectics’.
“Dialectical = an adjective that we
use, throughout the volumes of this Encyclopedia, for describing
processes which involve internal opposition -- ‘self-opposition’,
‘self-antithesis’, ‘intra-duality’, ‘self-duality’, internal
‘‘‘contradiction’’’, or ‘‘‘self-contradiction’’’ -- within the meanings and/or
within the physical processes encompassed by a given initial category,
followed, incrementally, by externalization of that internal opposition, into
an external opposition among the units of the resulting two qualitatively distinct categories, typically
as generated by an ‘auto-«aufheben»’ operation, followed, incrementally, by a
reconciliation of that externalized internal-/self-opposition with the units of its source-category,
in the form of the irruption of the units of a third category, typically through a mutual ‘allo-«aufheben»’ operation of
the units of the externally-opposing/qualitatively-distinct categories-pair. Higher ‘self-iterations’ of this
kind of process may ensue, with either the second or the third category of the initial
‘self-iteration’ taking on a ‘‘‘self-similar’’’ ‘auto-«aufheben»’role to that of the given first
category, but at a higher level/scale of
operations/complexity/‘‘‘determinatenesses’’’.”
Much of the work of Karl Seldon, and of his collaborators,
including work by “yours truly”, is available for free-of-charge download via
--
Regards,
Miguel Detonacciones,
Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica
[F.E.D.],
Officer, F.E.D.
Office of Public Liaison
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