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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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What philosopher said that knowledge is about discerning differences?

Descartes says such things; I will quote extensively from the SEP article on his epistemology, specifically the section entitled "Analysis of Perfect Knowledge":
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What philosopher said that knowledge is about discerning differences?

Not sure why everyone here is pointing generally to one thinker with little context, the ideas are similar amongst many, and Hegel of course mentions this in his preface to the Phenomenology. The ...
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