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Re 5. Cornforth (Charles Brown)
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> A. Mani
> Hello,
> I noticed that in his book 'Dialectical Materialism', Cornforth has
> seriously distorted the concept of 'dialectical contradiction' in
> particular.
> Compare those parts with Lenin's exposition of 'dialectical contradiction'
> in
> his philosophical notebooks for example. I believe this must be quite well
> known ... or is it ?
>
>
>
> A. Mani
>
> ^^^^^
> CB; What is the distortion ?
He reduces dialectical contradiction to negation in many words... that is his
conception. Not Marx's or even Hegel's.
A correct interpretation should be that
Suppose A and B are dynamically changing subjects.
Let A have a specific associated predicate P (P need not be a predicate
defining A).
Let B have a specific associated predicate Q
Then A is in dialectical contradiction to B if and only if P is the negative
of Q .
{Formally I am assuming that P, Q are all interpreted}
{'negative of' too need not be specifiable through a unary function... it may
be a binary relation}
{A set-theoretic ontology may be assumed. }
i.e. it is a 'negation' between certain associated predicates of dynamically
changing subjects.
Lenin summarizes Marxist dialectics very well and in simple terms.
A. Mani
Member, Cal. Math. Soc
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