Essay:Dialectics

Derived from Kant, Hegel, and Marx, however different it may seem...

It is impossible to fully understand even the simplest things, let alone complex patterns of interaction. However, as we interact with them we form provisional concepts that have some relationship to them. As we continue to experience the thing using our provisional concepts we gain experience, particularly experience which differs from our initial concepts. Based on all the information we have now we construct a second more refined version of what a thing is and how it interacts with other things, but, once again, experience and contradiction interfere and further refinements are made. This process continues indefinitely on both an individual and cultural basis.

"Wherever there is movement, wherever there is life, wherever anything is carried into effect in the actual world, there Dialectic is at work. It is also the soul of all knowledge which is truly scientific."