Re: The 'formalising' of dialectics.

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On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, scottpsolomon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> please give an example of how a study of the dialectical method led to
> a practice that led to a great scientific discovery in the past 50
> years.

That would be Stephen Jay Gould, I do believe.
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> please quote the great scientist who attributed his discovery to his
> understanding of the dialectical method
>

That would be the early book of his, forget which one, where he talked=20
about Engels's "Dialectic of Nature" and how he was into it and how it=20
related to his own work.

He didn't of course rant about how his discovery was *because* of his=20
mastery of The Dialectic, not being a Healyite.

-jh-

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> On Jul 1, 6:23=A0pm, stephen <srdiam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Jul 1, 2:28=A0pm, scottpsolo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
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>>> These are very, very, very, profoundly, profoundly, profoundly and
>>> very profound contributions. =A0Up until now, Trotskyism has been a
>>> failure because more time hasn't been spent understanding Dialectics.
>>> Nobody who has made a real scientific contribution in the last fifty
>>> years
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>> Not actually true, and I'm surprise you would think it. Even if
>> dialectics were utterly worthless, some scientists surely would
>> embrace the dialectical method, as some scientists have always
>> gravitated to every manner of superstition.
>>
>> srd
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>> =A0or who has built a successful political party gives a **** about
>>
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>>
>>> Dialectics, but that doesn't mean a profoundly profoundly profound
>>> deeply deep study of this im****tant area of study would have propelled
>>> humanity much farther in every area of human endeavor if Dialects had
>>> been the first order of business before any other sort of intellectual
>>> pursuit.- Hide quoted text -
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>> - Show quoted text -
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