The Key to Dialectic as We See It.

The Key to Dialectic as We See It.

Dear Reader,

¿What is the key to dialectic -- the essence of categorial, historical dialectic -- as seen by We of F.E.D.?

It is that the second category, the «arithmos» of the second kind, is rooted in the first category/«arithmos».  Its units are sourced in an ‘intra-duality’, in a ‘self-duality’, in an immanent, internal opposition; in a ‘‘‘self-opposition’’’ -- in a potentiality or ‘‘‘energizing principle’’’ -- that is ineluctably inherent in, and present in, the first category, the «arithmos» of the units     /«monads» of the first kind, itself.

The second category is born out of, as a [self-]development of, the first category.

The second category is not inexplicably and arbitrarily posited from, as it were,  ‘‘‘outside the universe’’’ -- from some unexplained ‘externity’ -- in absolute externality with respect to the first category.

The first category and the second category -- once it irrupts -- thus form the beginning of -- not, ‘in gene-ral’, a genetic, chromosomal genealogy, but, ‘in gene-ral’ -- a ‘meta- genealogy’, an ontological lineage.  The first category is the «arché», the ultimate ancestor, in/of such a lineage of ontological kinds.

The first category, due to its own, ‘intra-duality’-driven development, beyond a certain threshold in that self-development, “begets” the units     /«monads» of the second category; disgorges and ‘ecloses’ them.  This is ‘‘‘«[auto-]diairesis»’’’. 

Then, later, the third category is born out of the interaction of some of the units of the first category with some of the units of the second category; by the resulting fusion, or ‘ontological hybridization’, of some of the units of each of the first two categories.

The units       /«monads» of the third category/«arithmos»/kind -- the «arithmos» of the units       /«monads» of the third kind -- are ontologically different from, and more complex than, the units of the first category, and even the units of the second category, because its units       /«monads» are combinations of the units     /«monads» of the second category/kind with the units     /«monads» of the first category/kind.  This is ‘‘‘«synagôgê»’’’.

And this universal ‘«arithmos»[-of-monads] dynamics’ has its own «arithm[os]-êtikê»; its own ‘‘‘arithmetic’’’ -- ‘‘‘«dialektikê aritmêtikê»’’’.

FYI:  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