Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 12:37:28 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re:  EPISTEMOLOGICAL & ONTOLIGCAL DIALECTICS -- KEY ISSUES


I'm sorry to keep you hanging for so long, but I have been mighty
busy the past several months, and I finally managed to unearth the
article I was looking for from my files only a few minutes ago.
The main reference I had in mind regarding dialectics and
mathematical logic is the following:

Vardy, Peter.  "On the Dialectics of Metamathematics", GRADUATE
FACULTY PHILOSOPHY JOURNAL [New School for Social Research],  vol.
17, nos. 1-2, 1994, pp. 191-216.  Translated by Marcus Brainard.
This article originally appeared as "Zur Dialektik der
Metamathematik", in: Michael John Petry, ed., HEGEL UND DIE
NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Kolzboog,
1987), pp. 205-240.

Vardy's approach is congruent with the same sort of questions I
have been asking for years.  It begins with the problem of
self-reference and gets to the very nature of formalization.  This
is a much more interesting approach to issues of dialectics in
logic than the rubbish that usually gets discussed.


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