Interdisciplinary Research on Modern Logic and Speculative Philosophy: A New Model of Dialectical Logic

Abstract

Dialectical logic, which takes dialectical thinking as its object of study, occupies a controversial position between logic and philosophy. The reductionist approach employed by modern logical positivists often fails to align with speculative philosophy’s interpretation of dialectical thinking, while speculative philosophy, influenced by holism, tends to rely on qualitative interpretations that lack the precise quantitative analysis required for acceptance in modern logic. Against this backdrop, and in accordance with the interdisciplinary perspective advocated by complexity science, dialectical thinking should be regarded as a subject of interdisciplinary research bridging modern logic and speculative philosophy. This new model of dialectical logic involves using the reductionist methods of modern logic to dissect the components of the complex systems referred to by dialectical concepts, identifying the relationships among these components, and then returning to a holistic speculative philosophical perspective to define the dialectical nature of the system as a whole through formalized means.

Keywords

dialectical thinking / conceptual system / dialectical logic / modern logic analysis / interpretation of speculative philosophy

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