I know that's right. Well, well, well. You might want to take a look at that collection of articles, _Dialectical Contradictions : Contemporary Marxist Discussions_. Somebody mentions, maybe Lawler, the square root of negative one. There is an article by Narski there.
^^^^ "Marquit (1981) endeavors to clarify the three 'laws of dialectics' beginning with a formulation of what he calls "law zero", the law of universal interconnection." ^^^ CB: Cornforth emphasizes interconnectedness first in his book critiquing Popper. It is the issue of the whole and parts. Anti-reductionism, so important in Caudwell, derives from holistic emphasis, moving from the whole to the parts primarily rather than from parts to wholes. Lewontin and Levins emphasize this in _Dialectical Biologist_. It may be that Marxist philosophy developed outside of the SU in the Stalinist period. Britain had Caudwell and others. ^^^^ "A changing object exists in a given state and not in the given state at the same time." ^^^^ CB: This is the general paradox in Zeno's paradox for displacement, I believe. It is the paradox inherent in conceiving of motion in this way. But what other way is there to conceive of motion ? It's a trivial paradox in a way. CB ^^^^ (1)Ralph Dumain : Erwin Marquit's articles in Science and Society offset the two articles by Graham Priest previously described. Marquit, Erwin. "Dialectics of Motion in Continuous and Discrete Spaces," Science and Society, vol. 42, Winter 1978-79, 410-425. Marquit, Erwin. "Contradictions and Dialectics and Formal Logic," Science and Society, vol. 45, no. 3, Fall 1981, 306-323. Marquit, Erwin. "A Materialist Critique of Hegel's Concept of Identity of Opposites," Science and Society, vol. 54, no. 2, Summer 1990, 147-166. See also Marquit's article in NST: Marquit, Erwin. "Distinctions Between the Spheres of Action of Formal Logic and Dialectical Logic," Nature, Society and Thought, vol. 3, no. 1, 1990, 31-37. Both Marquit (1981) and Priest (1990-91) refer to Marquit (1978-79). Marquit also refers to Marquit (1981) and Marquit's article in NST. Marquit (1990) reacts to Priest (1989-90), and Priest (1990-91) reacts to Marquit (1990). There, now that we've cleared that up . . . Marquit (1981) endeavors to clarify the three 'laws of dialectics' beginning with a formulation of what he calls "law zero", the law of universal interconnection. He then clarifies the logic of the famed three laws and their relation one to one another. His next step is to clarify objective and subjective dialectics and their relation to one another. Taking examples of antinomial statements which seem to embody logical contradictions, Marquit then argues that dialectical contradictions are not logical contradictions. (319). Examples chosen from Hegel, Engels, and quantum mechanics can be expressed in the form: "A changing object exists in a given state and not in the given state at the same time." Other views are brought in from Ilyenkov, F.F. Vyakkerev, Gottfired Stiehler, and D.P. Gorskii. Marquit's main inspiration is Igor S. Narski. While I have not really described Marquit's argument, I will give him credit for treating this matter in an uncommonly precise and sophisticated manner, which Priest (the logician!) unaccountably shortchanges. I don't know what I've seen by Narski if anything, though I am familiar with the name. Also in evidence is the increasing professionalism and sophistication of Soviet philosophers following the death of Stalin. _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list [email protected] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
