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Regarding dialectics: I am not sure from what is being said if anyone is really saying that matters are not dialectical. Are they just objecting to people using that phrasing to deflect criticsm or to highlight a criticism? It sort of seems to me that inter-connectedness - is not easy to jettison.... Jim D gives a starting point from his summary, to ask: Is there a major natural or historical theory/practice that is not 'dialectical'? Will the reply be that dialectics is so 'elastic' that it cannot be 'falsified'? Somehow I do not think that would be good enough. Hari Kumar ^^^^^^ CB: An aspect of this issue is the sense in which dialectics is a logic. What would we think if all natural and historical theories/practices were 'logical' ? In the sense of the formal logic of Aristotle and I.M. Copi. Would we think that formal logic is so 'elastic' that it cannot be 'falsified' ? No , we would expect a certain pervasiveness of formal logic ,and so with dialectics.
