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>From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.philosophy
Subject: Re: Is dialectical thought an "informal logic"?
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Date: 28 Nov 91 18:56:51 GMT
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In article <Z1u3BB1w164w@depsych.Gwinnett.COM> rc@depsych.Gwinnett.COM (Richard Carlson) writes:
>The most amazing thing I've discovered so far is the absence of
>technical knowledge of the dialectic.  It's almost as if Hegel had
>never lived. ... He doesn't refer to any thinkers or workers who have
>said or written things about the dialectic. Why are Americans so
>disinclined to discuss the dialectic and dialectical reasoning
>even when they exemplify it?

You're just not reading the right people.  Neither was H
(except, perhaps, Dreyfus).


