Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 17:37:05 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: evolutionary dialectics


Rahul,
     I am all for doing tests.  So maybe dialectics
has been superseded by "phase transitions," "bifurcations,"
and all sorts of other not so common sense language.  But
small changes in control variables eventually leading to 
big changes in state variables ("quantity into quality")
are not necessarily common sense, although examples such
as Hegel's old water melting one certainly abound to convince
those willing to pay attention.
Barkley Rosser


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