Monday, June 11, 2018

‘‘‘Dialectical’’’ -- E.D. Definition.


‘‘‘Dialectical’’’ -- E.D. Definition.







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’’’.      


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Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,
Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.],
Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison


























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