Date Posted:10:57:21 07/18/00 Tue Author:SwimmingUpstream Subject: Re: IMAGINATION AND TYRANNIES In reply to:
SwimmingUpstream
's message, "Re: IMAGINATION AND TYRANNIES" on 10:55:54 07/18/00 Tue
Dear Jonathan,
At the moment I can't find the argument against Hegel's dialectic, so I'll just do a down and dirty job here.
You may recognize this argument as a paraphrase of Bertrand Russell's argument -- I don't want to be accused of
plagiarism:
The whole thesis/antithesis view is based on the logically false claim that one can know everything about an entity
by naming the minimal number of qualities that distinguish it from all others. Thus in negation there is affirmation.
However, this is not true. Your first and last name and address separate you from all who don't have the same
name and address, but this is not sufficient to fully qualify either your identity or an anti-identity.
There, and I didn't even use the word antinomies...
