Here is the fun part. Marx is quoted as stating:
"Merely quantitative differences, beyond a certain point, pass into
qualitative changes." --Karl Marx, Capital, Vol. 1.
This is translated as number two of the three laws of dialectics.
"The three laws of dialectics are:
* The law of the unity and conflict of opposites;
* The law of the passage of quantitative changes into qualitative
changes;
* The law of the negation of the negation."
Notice the difference. LOOK CLOSE. .
Marx:
1). Merely quantitative differences,
2). beyond a certain point,
3). pass into qualitative changes."
This is morphed into the concept of
"The law of the passage of QUANTITATIVE CHANGES into qualitative
changes;"
Marx "quantitative difference" - (not quantitative changes), is pregnant with
meaning. The word quantitative + difference embody a quality or a concept of
quality, which is the meaning of "difference" because "difference" is a
relationship or measure of one thing against and in contradistinction to
another
thing. This is the most basic meaning of the word quality.
"(T)he passage of quantitative changes into qualitative changes" should be
corrected to read "the passage of merely quantitative differences into
qualitative changes."
Such a correction means we have at least acknowledged the concept of
emergence or emergent properties and their quantitative addition to an existing
process, (as being at least related to the meaning of quantitative difference)
and
on this basis the process, as it had existed, undergoes qualitative change or
restructuring.
That is why I continue to raise objection to the endless repeating that
"quantitative changes pass to qualitative changes."
This is old hat. Twenty-five years or so later it is down right boring.
Waistline
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