Re: The 'formalising' of dialectics.

On Wed, 2 Jul 2008, Jim F. wrote:

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> The British biologist J.B.S. Haldane claimed that much
> of his research was inspired by dialectical materialism.
> See Helena Sheehan's discussion of this at:
> http://webpages.dcu.ie/~sheehanh/haldane.htm

Wasn't Haldane an orthodox Stalinist?

-jh-
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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.
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> 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
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> That would be the early book of his, forget which one, where he talked
> about Engels's "Dialectic of Nature" and how he was into it and how it
> related to his own work.
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> He didn't of course rant about how his discovery was *because* of his
> mastery of The Dialectic, not being a Healyite.
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> -jh-
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>> On Jul 1, 6:23 pm, stephen <srdiam...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Jul 1, 2:28 pm, scottpsolo...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> These are very, very, very, profoundly, profoundly, profoundly and
>>>> very profound contributions. Up 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.
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>>> srd
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>>> or 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
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