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by YoungHegelian
Wed Nov 11, 2020 8:47 am
Forum: Hegel Forum
Topic: "Not Dialectic but Sophistry"
Replies: 2
Views: 5247

Re: "Not Dialectic but Sophistry"

I like your argument about unity/synthesis - to which I would add, from the Encyclopedia: a speculative content can also not be expressed in a one-sided sentence. If we say, for instance, 'the absolute is the unity of the subjective and the objective', this is, to be sure, correct but one-sided inso...
by YoungHegelian
Sun Nov 08, 2020 10:05 am
Forum: Quantum Mechanics
Topic: "Dialectical Aspects of Statistical Thermodynamics"
Replies: 0
Views: 3218

"Dialectical Aspects of Statistical Thermodynamics"

I'm not pretending to understand what this paper is about - actually "Dialectical Aspects of Statistical Thermodynamics" is a section of a paper. The whole paper is called "On the Foundations of Statistical Thermodynamics" and, like everything else I've posted recently, it's from...
by YoungHegelian
Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:59 am
Forum: Quantum Mechanics
Topic: "The 'dialectical' way of looking at things" (Rosenfeld)
Replies: 0
Views: 3229

"The 'dialectical' way of looking at things" (Rosenfeld)

A couple of good lines from the Selected Papers of Leon Rosenfeld : If the development of the theory of atomic phenomena initiated by the discovery of the quantum of action and the elementary constituents of atoms does not represent one of the major dialectical processes in the whole dialectical gro...
by YoungHegelian
Sat Nov 07, 2020 10:51 am
Forum: Quantum Mechanics
Topic: Complementarity—"Instrument of Dialectical Logic"
Replies: 0
Views: 3181

Complementarity—"Instrument of Dialectical Logic"

Thank you 老子 for posting about Rosenfeld and Hideki, neither of whom I had heard of before. (I asked a Japanese friend who said Hideki is quite famous in Japan.) Thanks also for referencing the essay on Bohr's epistemology. I appreciated Rosenfeld's comments on Bohr's conception of complementarity—w...
by YoungHegelian
Mon Nov 02, 2020 5:52 am
Forum: Quantum Mechanics
Topic: "Hegel among the Quantum Physicists"
Replies: 0
Views: 5478

"Hegel among the Quantum Physicists"

[NOTE: This post was moved from the HEGEL FORUM to QUANTUM MECHANICS—Administrator] I am posting a link (below) to an article by Roland Williamson called "Hegel among the Quantum Physicists". WARNING : It's heavy on the Žižek . . . https://forum.dialecticinstitute.org/Williamson_Hegel-amon...
by YoungHegelian
Thu Oct 29, 2020 9:04 pm
Forum: Hegel Forum
Topic: Goethe on Hegel
Replies: 0
Views: 3758

Goethe on Hegel

I know this isn't strictly dialectical, but it offers an interesting personal perspective on Hegel: After a visit from Hegel, Goethe wrote to [Karl Ludwig von] Knebel that the conversation had aroused in him the desire to be together with Hegel at more length, "For what in the printed communica...
by YoungHegelian
Sun Oct 18, 2020 5:44 am
Forum: Quantum Mechanics
Topic: Heisenberg, Bohr & Hegel
Replies: 1
Views: 3735

Re: Heisenberg, Bohr & Hegel

This is an amazing post - not only because it links Heisenberg, Bohr and Hegel, but I'm also interested in the line below where Heisenberg mentions some guy named Weizenhacker or whatever (I can't see and reply to the original post at the same time, so I'm going on memory!) who he says is developing...