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In what shape do opposites exist?
The opposite of A is necessarily not A, but not A is not necessarily the opposite of A. For example, both big and industrious are not small, but industrious is not the opposite of small.
Opposites are ...
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How is Hegel's dialectic a logic?
The short answer is that reason, logic, and dialectic are conceptually overlapping.
Reason is often taken to be the process a philosopher engages is and is a property of intelligence. Therefore one ...
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What philosopher said that knowledge is about discerning differences?
Well, it really all started with Parmenides at 600bc. Parmenides was the founder of ontology that influenced Plato and subsequently all others. Ontology is the study of being(ov), and in Parmenides ...
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