References
- See “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” in Willard Van Orman Quine, From a Logical Point of View, Harper and Row, New York, 1963.
- See Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book VI, Chapter vi, and Posterior Analytics, Book I, Chapter ii.
- So it is that Engels lists as the three most general laws of nature, history and thought three laws of dialectics: the law of the transformation of quantity into quality and vice versa, the law of the interpenetration of opposites, and the law of the negation of the negation (see Frederick Engels, Dialectics of Nature, International Publishers, New York, 1960, p. 26).
- See A. J. Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic, Penguin Books, Middlesex, England, 1982.
- Quine, op. cit.
- See Plato, The Republic, Book VII, 533c-d, and Aristotle, op. cit.
- G. W. F. Hegel, Science of Logic, translated by A. V. Miller, Humanities Press, New York, 1969, pp. 82–83.
- Ibid., p. 838.
- It is in light of this that Hegel does not deal thematically with reason and philosophy in his Science of Logic, but rather treats them as topics of Realphilosophie, properly conceivable in the Philosophy of Spirit which presupposes both dialectical logic and the Philosophy of Nature.