Part 03: ‘Seldon’s Dialectics’ Series. Hegel’s Dialectic of BEING – a Set-Theoretical RE-Interpretation.

 

 

Part 03: ‘Seldon’s Dialectics’ Series.

 

Hegel’s Dialectic of BEING – a Set-Theoretical 

RE-Interpretation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dear Reader,

 

 

 

It is my pleasure, and my honor, as an elected member of the Foundation Encyclopedia Dialectica [F.E.D.] General Council, and as a voting member of F.E.D., 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, and from the internal sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

 

This 3rd release of this new such series is posted below [Some E.D. standard edits have been applied, in the version presented below, by the editors of the F.E.D. Special Council for the Encyclopedia, to the direct transcript of our co-founder’s discourse].

 

 

 

Seldon --

“The opening triad of Hegel’s [dialectical] Science of Logic is the categorial progression which we notate as --

“BEING  --)  NOTHING  --)  BECOMING.”

 

“We see the intelligibility of this dialectical categorial progression – often seen as a ‘convolute’ rather than as an ‘evolute’ categories-progression -- as enhanced by a view that was not accessible, as such, to Hegel: a -- finitary -- set-theoretical re-interpretation.”

 

“If we look at this set “under the hood”, from its "inside" – from under the “outer envelope”, enclosing its set-elements – of this “Set of all Beings”, we see the vast plenitude, the overwhelming diversity, the unfathomable, cornucopic -- albeit still finitary -- plenteousness of past, of present, and of expected/predicted future beings of all kinds, sub-kinds, sub-sub-kinds, etc.  That is, we see the “extension” of the set named BEING.”

 

“On the contrary, if we look at the “hood” itself, i.e., at the enclosing boundary, of the set named BEING -- if we look at this set from its “outside”, attempting to grasp the unitary “intension” of this set, the quality which every last element of this set exhibits in common with every other element of this set, then we can discern only NOTHING – we see a “quality” diluted, attenuated, rarefied, by this vast diversity of distinct qualities, to a vanishing, ineffable degree.”

 

“Our itinerary, in our ensuing junketing back and forth, between the “inside” view and the “outside” view of this set -- between this set’s “extension” and its “intension”; our self-re-iterated jumping from BEING to NOTHING, and then back to BEING again, and then back to NOTHING again . . . is captured, summarized, and stabilized in the set named BECOMING, which unifies all of our, potentially endless, oscillations of “Ceasing BEING”, or Going [back] to NOTHING, and [then/next] “Coming [back] to BE[ING] [back from NOTHING].”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For more information regarding these Seldonian insights, please see --

 

www.dialectics.info

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For partially pictographical, ‘poster-ized’ visualizations of many of these Seldonian insights -- specimens of ‘dialectical art’ – as well as dialectically-illustrated books published by the F.E.D. Press, see –

 

https://www.etsy.com/shop/DialecticsMATH

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

¡ENJOY!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

Miguel Detonacciones,

 

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

Elected Member, F.E.D. General Council;

Participant, F.E.D. Special Council for Public Liaison;

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

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