Seldon’s Opus: Key Excerpts. Excerpt Number 9 -- ‘Systematicity Recapitulates Historicity.’

 

Seldon’s Opus:  Key Excerpts.  Excerpt Number 9 --

‘Systematicity Recapitulates Historicity’.

Dear Reader,

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an Officer of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] Office of Public Liaison, to share with you, from time to time, as they are approved for public release by the F.E.D. General Council, key excerpts from the internal writings of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

The ninth such release in this new series is pasted in below.  [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

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Miguel

“How is it that a ‘«gene»-ric’ algebraic dialectic is possible, i.e., as a «genos» with [at least] two «species», namely, (1) ‘~synchronic /systematic dialectical algebra’, & (2) ‘diachronic/historical dialectical algebra’?”

“How can a single algebra describe both the “cross-sectional” & the “longitudinal”?

“Because ‘systematicity’ doubly-recapitulates ‘historicity’ [albeit often not exactly].

“Because ‘‘‘systematic dialectic’’’  doubly-recapitulates ‘‘‘historical dialectic’’’.

“Because ‘~synchronicity’ doubly-recapitulates ‘diachronicity’.

This is a qualitative aspect of ‘‘‘time-binding’’’ [cf. Korzybski].

And, again, as in a hologram, ‘locality’ [e.g., ‘‘‘ontogeny’’’] recapitulates ‘globality’.”