Saturday, February 25, 2012

What is "New"?

Hegel believes many definitions in science, such as the one about Force in Newtonian mechanics, does not present any new relation in the nature but only illustrates existing relations from another standpoint or by using new terms and parlance. "He points out that the discovery of so-called new forces, was nothing more than a reduction of the reality of a thing to that of another thing as if this solved some problem. This is what Hegel calls something ‘having its being in another’. " (Introduction to Hegel's Logic, Andy Blunden, p. 60). So what is important in Hegel's logic is the confrontation of mind with new relations. Unfolding simple concepts, as Hegel believes to be process of consciousness, is an inward process, or in words of Bludnen is the product of mind working on thought objects, however, the important point is to find the interface between mind and fact, or between subjective and objective logic.

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