Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 09:47:22 +0100
Subject: Re: BHA: test


HI Howard,

By way of letting you know that your test works, I shall reply.

But before I do, is anyone planning to go to Orebro. I have tried to
contact the conference organisers and got no reply. Is it defintely going
ahead? I don't want to spend out money on a flight and then find out
nothing is happening.

Anyway, Howard.

Your reply is aimed at, I suppose:

>Second, why should we presume that logical contradictions can always be
>overcome? In what sense are the statements "it is raining" and "it is not
>raining" to be explained and overcome through dialectical reasoning. 

To which you ask:

Colin, how does the day get from it's 
>not raining to it's raining and back again?  Is there a moment where we must 
>say either it's not raining and it is raining or it's neither raining or not 
>raining?  I mean we don't just have one state and then the other. We have 
>to move from one to the other and analytical reason doesn't help us there, 
>does it?

My question was about how the "statements" (not the state - the
logicisation of being?) can be resolved through dialectical reasoning. And
I'm none the wiser. Unless of course, it is OK to logicise being in terms
of dialectical reasoning but not logical. Is the transition from one state
(as opposed to its description) to another dialectical? If so why? 

And yes, there is a time when we can say that either it is raining or it is
not raining. I am constantly made aware of exactly this state when my
partner throws me out of the door telling me to get the washing in because
"it is raining". To me "it is not raining" it is only a few drops and I
can't see what all the fuss is about, but to her it most certainly is
raining. I have tried to engage her in discussion about dialectical
reasoning at such times but this was not the smartest move on my behalf.


Cheers,



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Dr. Colin Wight
Department of International Politics
University of Wales
Aberystwyth
telephone: +44 (0)1970-621769
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