Part 12: The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts -- Dialectics as a Heuristic.

Part 12:  The Seldon Dialogues, Excerpts --

Dialectics as a Heuristic «Organon».

Dear Reader,

FYI --

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, and sayings, of our co-founder, Karl Seldon.

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

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Regards,

Miguel Detonacciones,

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

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

“... dialectics is a heuristic, not a guarantee of adherence to the «arché»-category/contra-category/uni-category/... pattern in every last instance.”

“ ‘‘‘Universality’’’ does not imply ‘exceptionlessness’.”

“Nevertheless, we can educe many evidences supporting an expectation that such adherence will be frequent, not only in the synchronic context, but in the diachronic context, and in the diachronico-synchronic context as well. ...”

“. . . If a given kind is the first born of its ‘‘‘lineage’’’, and if it is born with ‘intra-duality’ or ‘self-duality’, then it will, at some length, divulge and disgorge its own other, its other kind.  Then, at yet further length from its time of birth, as these now two, kinds develop [in] their mutual otherness, some of both will eventually merge, will re-unify in a way that exceeds their earliest, primitive undifferentiated unity, in which the other was still occulted, when there was only one manifest kind, and not, as now, three manifest kinds. ...”

“. . . The ontology of our «kosmos» grows monadically, by means of expandedly reproducing individual units that are also agents of ontological change -- historical [proto-]subjects, catalyzing ‘onto-dynamasis’.”

“But the -- limited -- human mind cannot follow each of these agents individually and all at once.”

“The human mind can, instead, best grasp groups -- grasp the [self-]movements of myriads of «monads» by means of «arithmoi», that is, of “kinds” [i.e., of «gene» and of «species», etc.], that is, of ‘‘‘kind categories’’’, or ‘‘‘ontological categories’’’, and of the ‘birthings’ of new ‘‘‘ontological categories’’’ from out of the midst of themselves. . . .”