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Comment author: PhilGoetz 06 August 2014 03:46:52AM *  0 points [-]

Hegel did use synthesis. I think the go-to reference is his book The Logic of Science, whose title I remember only because I heard a lecturer describe it as being peculiar for a book that contained no discussion of either logic or science. By "logic" he meant his dialectic method, which is not logical (in the sense of having operators with defined outcomes).

Comment author: [deleted] 06 August 2014 12:28:36PM *  4 points [-]

Hegel did use synthesis.

You're looking for the German word Aufhebung.

I think the go-to reference is his book The Logic of Science, whose title I remember only because I heard a lecturer describe it as being peculiar for a book that contained no discussion of either logic or science.

Har har. Wissenschaft has a broader meaning than science. The book does actually discuss logic, devoting an entire section to the analysis of the various meanings of being.

More cached thoughts for you to clean out.

Comment author: HalMorris 11 August 2014 07:28:40PM *  0 points [-]

I think it's worth quoting some of the Wikipedia article on Aufhebung that you link to:

Aufheben or Aufhebung[1] is a German word with several seemingly contradictory meanings, including "to lift up", "to abolish", "cancel" or "suspend", or "to sublate".[2] The term has also been defined as "abolish", "preserve", and "transcend".

No Wonder we're confused.

Comment author: ChristianKl 08 August 2014 12:28:01PM 0 points [-]

Hegel does quite strange things to language. He wrote in German and any English translation is not going to get everything right.

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