Is the World a Dialectical Place?

Universal interconnection and universal change are what call for the dialectical method of inquiry. Superdeterminism requires that the changes coming to anything result, in part, from causes within it, but its perseverance nonetheless will mean these are temporarily counteracted: so every phenomenon is contradictory. Nor can change remain unchangingly incremental: at a threshold, quantity will be transformed into quality. Neither can the superseded remain unchangingly absent, or return just as before: hence, the negation of the negation.

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Science & Society
Published
2026-02-13
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https://doi.org/10.1177/00368237251383449
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Philosophy and History of Science
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Is the World a Dialectical Place?

D. Goldstick
Science & Society
Philosophy and History of Science
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Is the World a Dialectical Place?

D. Goldstick
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Abstract

Universal interconnection and universal change are what call for the dialectical method of inquiry. Superdeterminism requires that the changes coming to anything result, in part, from causes within it, but its perseverance nonetheless will mean these are temporarily counteracted: so every phenomenon is contradictory. Nor can change remain unchangingly incremental: at a threshold, quantity will be transformed into quality. Neither can the superseded remain unchangingly absent, or return just as before: hence, the negation of the negation.

Science & Society
University of Toronto (CA)
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Openalex Percentile: Top 63%
Philosophy and History of Science
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