Qualitative vs. Quantitative Object Context Change & Dialectics

From: Universe (universe_at_tAkEcovadOuT.net)
Date: 01/21/04 

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:19:31 -0500

"Universe" <universe@tAkEcovadOuT.net> wrote in message
news:7a03d$400ddfbc$97cff003

> *Strategically* (vs. tactically) Don't Combine 2 Basic Oppositions
Into 1!
> *Strategically* Split 1 (seeming unity of opposites) into 2 (poles)!

A dialectic is where 2 opposing objects form a union. Often a
dialectic is found to constitute or motor the essence of another
object. It is the interaction of the opposite objects in a specific
set of conditions - a specific context - that gives the object they
are the center of its contextual features and characteristics. When
there is great enough change of the context the object the dialectic
lives in, the nature of the interaction of the dialectic's 2 opposites
typically changes enough to cause a qualitative change in the features
and characteristics of the object the dialectic drives.

Key aspects of a dialectic that cause change when the context of their
object changes are:
    ~ the manner in which the 2 opposites interpenetrate one another
            [crudely just as each side of the I Ching symbol has a
circle within it of the opposite color
    ~ the manner and conditions whereby the opposites undergo
mathematical like identity; i.e. how and
            given what contexts the opposites switch, or exchange role
responsibilities
                a) at any instant they may exchange from 1 to all
roles
                b) key roles for the opposites are:
                            1) which plays the leading role
                            2) which plays the engaging role
                            3) which plays the parametrizing
(constraining) role
                c) the Leading<=>Parametric is a significant role
responsibility opposition
                d) the Engaging<=>Parametric is a significant role
responsibility opposition
    ~ the manner and conditions which cause the opposites to come into
overall conflict
    ~ the manner and conditions which cause the opposites to have
overall unity or peace between them
    ~ the manner and conditions which cause one opposite to overcome
and eat the other opposite
                a) this may lead to a new dialectic with totally new
opposites
                b) this may lead to a new dialectic where the
victorious opposite forms a new
                        dialectic with some other opposite
    ~ the manner and conditions whereby the object the dialectic
resides in becomes its opposite in
            terms of its nature, features and characteristics
    ~ the manner and conditions which cause the dialectic to generate
small quantitative changes in the
            nature, features and characteristics of the object in
which it resides
    ~ the manner and conditions which cause the dialectic to generate
large qualitative changes in the
            nature, features and characteristics of the object in
which it resides

Elliott 

--
The thing is that as I showed in the excerpt of a mathematician, the
mathematicians don't think Integer "is a" Real.  A Real has *more* to
it than an Integer to begin with.  A Real has both an Integer AND
decimal part.  Why would any right thinking mathematician think that
something less *is-a* something more?

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