If dialectics form a system of logic, it's one that's qualitatively different from formal logic. In fact, I'd call them a system of heuristics (which Webster's defines as "an aid to learning, discovery, or problem-solving ... that utilize self-educating techniques"). ---
It is a system of logic in the Hegelian sense of the word, which refers to the relationships between ideas as the develop in the unfolding of Absolute Spirit. Hegel was using the word Logik with its Greek root, logos, in mind, esp. the use of "logos" in Hellenistic and Roman philosophy as a technical term for the rational order underlying all things, as in the Bible's "en genesei en ho logos" (in the beginning was the word [rational ordering priniciple]), or the Stoic happit of equating logos, nous (mind) and Zeus, the divinity. This is not "logic" in the Aristotelian or Russellian senses. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
