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Can anyone explain this to me? - Myek - 02-27-2014

http://www.thenewdialectics.org/hegeldiallog.htm

The Formalization of Hegel’s Dialectical Logic
Its Formal Structure, Logical Interpretation and Intuitive Foundation
By Michael Kosok

Yeah, neo-Hegelians are to be automatically disregarded, I know, but I seriously want to know what any of you guys think of what any single paragraph on that page means before I read/skim through Rosa Lichtenstein's criticism of it ( http://www.anti-dialectics.co.uk/page%2008_03.htm#Kosoks_Kooky_Logic ).

Oh, and if the first few paragraphs of that new dialectics stuff feels uncomfortable to read, keep going, it gets even "better"

It even has images to make it all easier!

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RE: Can anyone explain this to me? - Fur - 02-27-2014

It looks like they just took basic Boolean algebra and made it super convoluted and half-assed. If this really is a joke/hoax, it's pretty good.

RE: Can anyone explain this to me? - Myek - 02-27-2014

So, I did a bit of searching around the site to see who this Kosok weirdo is and I found this: http://www.thenewdialectics.org/intromk.htm

According to his auto bio, he received Ph.Ds on physics and philosophy from Columbia University and at the time of the writing he spent half of his life on some obscure neo Hegel thing that no one should care about.
"I have spent the past 25 years in actively pursuing one goal: the materialization of a true dialectic logic which could constitute itself as a dynamics of action and not a passive reflective logic dealing with abstractions or fixed givens within a closed universe."

He's been in almost total obscurity besides from a few references in other obscure works and forums.

http://integralpostmetaphysics.ning.com/forum/topics/michael-kosok

"Integral Postmetaphysical Spirituality

Participatory Spirituality for the 21st Century"

lol

RE: Can anyone explain this to me? - Cyber1435x - 02-27-2014

Just reading this... is studying calculus all over again... u.u

RE: Can anyone explain this to me? - TheAwezomeDJ - 02-28-2014

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RE: Can anyone explain this to me? - Rosa Lichtenstein - 04-02-2014

Fur, I thought it was a hoax, too, but this 'formalisation' appeared in an academic journal (so one assumes it had been peer reviewed!), and was later reprinted in a collection of academic essays about Hegel.

Incidentally, the on-line version is full of typos; the version at my site restores the original published version.

Unfortunately, academics have taken this 'formalisation' seriously for many years, but it is now quite apparent that they can't have read through it, since it is easy to show that it is flawed from beginning to end. As far as I know, my takedown is the very first of its kind.

Concerning its author, I had this to say in the above essay:

Quote:Anyway, Kosok has apparently disappeared (according to his leading disciple, the 'Marxist' mystic, Peter Wilberg):

"The larger-than-life man to whom this essay is dedicated and without whose genius and inspiration it could not possibly have been written, is in all likelihood long dead. I first encountered Michael Kosok in 1975, when he was still professor of physics and mathematics at Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey. For over two decades now he has disappeared from trace, his extraordinary writings on philosophy and science now seemingly consigned to oblivion -- never published save for a few articles in the journal Telos."

Otherwise, I would have asked Professor Kosok directly whether or not his 'formalisation' was genuine. In fact, I tried to e-mail him using the address given at his site, but my e-mail was returned "undeliverable". I haven't been able to ascertain any more details about this maverick 'logician'.

Finally, the jumbled mess found in Kosok's paper isn't Boolean Algebra, and doesn't even resemble it; it is simply a confused hieroglyphic system he cooked up himself.

RE: Can anyone explain this to me? - Rosa Lichtenstein - 04-04-2014

Can someone tell me why this site is so slow?

RE: Can anyone explain this to me? - Magic102 - 04-06-2014

I think it's the header that is added to each page, the "Play CTF!" thing at the top seems to lag me :c