‘‘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 meaning and/or within the physical processes encompassed by a given initial category, followed, incrementally, by externalization of that internal opposition, into an external opposition between two qualitatively distinct categories, typically as generated by an ‘auto-«aufheben»’ operation, followed, incrementally, by a reconciliation of that externalized internal-/self-opposition with its source, in the form of the irruption of a third category, typically through a mutual ‘allo-«aufheben»’ operation 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’’’ role to that of the given first category, but at a higher level/scale of operation/-complexity/- ‘‘‘determinateness’’’.”      

Much of the work of Karl Seldon, and of his collaborators, including work by “yours truly”, is available for free-of-charge download via --

www.dialectics.info

Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

Member, Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.],

Officer, F.E.D. Office of Public Liaison