Date: Fri, 13 Sep 96 15:44:44 GMT
Subject: Re: Engels, dialectics, etc -Reply -Reply



> I'm not sure if there is a dialectic in nature. It sems useful to me in
> analyzing science however; A number of scientists tend to forget (not the best
> ones) that quantity changes to quality. Thatis that rules are applicable in a
> limited context. When I see neurologists trying to reduce psychology to
> neurology, or psychologists trying to reduce the explanation of society to
> psychological rules, itmakes me think that a dialectic approach is well worth
> having in this respect.
> John Mullen 
> SI FRance

Well, it seems that you agree that quantity changes into quality in nature.
This is not simply a question of how you see it. A billion trillion water
molecules have a different set of properties than one water molecule. They share
some of these properties with a billion trillion mercury molecules in a way that
one water molecule does not share properties with one mercury molecule.
We can look at this aspect of nature how we like, but there is a real actually
existing transformation of quantity into quality.

I think the other laws come into play more when you consider complex and
organisation and historical change.

Adam.



Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK


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