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I got a tough one for you. Are dialectics eternal? (lemmygrad.ml)

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Rephrased, will dialectics always exist?

Have fun, because I sure don't.

edit: if it helps your thinking process a bit, consider this:

Dialectics explains the process of contradictions. So, does dialectics go through its own contradictions?
If so, that means dialectics has a process of its own and describes its own process as well. It's a bit like the "does a set of all sets contain itself" question.
But if the laws of dialectics are eternal and dialectics does not go through its own process and contradictions, then it would be eternal. Is that possible though?
And finally of course what are the implications of all of that?

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[–] NikkiB@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 week ago

It would be a mistake to consider dialectics itself a system with contradictions, in my view. If we think of dialectics as a scientific theory, it's contradictions are similar to those of gravitational or evolutionary theory. These explanations exist in the context of the material world which tests and refines them, and it's these challenges which transform the theories, making them more precise and useful over time. The system here is not merely the theory, but the practice of that theory as it runs up against the constraints of the real world. No, theories don't go through their own processes, but they go through processes nonetheless.