From: Andrew Brown (Andrew@LUBS.LEEDS.AC.UK)
Date: Fri Feb 13 2004 - 10:09:44 EST
Hi Jerry and Howard, A small point: the word 'logic' here could usefully be unpacked. Howard's realist standpoint sometimes seems to marginalise the role of 'logic' since logic is human-made, independent of the object, for a realist. It is *formal* logic. Hegel-inspired systematic dialectics in one way or another tends to suggest an identity or isomoprhism of thought and being, hence necessary relation between logic and object. This is captured in *dialectical* logic. Marx himself obviously thought Hegel himself positied an *idealist* identity. I would make the same criticism of Hegel-inspired systematic dialecticians, despite their detailed rebuttals of such a view. Materialst dialectics sponsers a *dialectical* logic grasped in a materialst way: logic reflects matter (a view itself obviously in need of unpacking) It thus takes the best of both the realist and Hegelian views. Alas no time to defend these assertions. Many thanks, Andy
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