We hear a lot of talk today about the importance of openness, but hardly any about the importance of closedness. But closedness is part of the nature of thought and discovery—dialectics—itself. Without closing, the dialectic means nothing, and nothing can be learned, gained, discovered. Dialectics takes something, opens it up, finds all the parts, but it has to be
Closing the dialectic
Closing the dialectic
Closing the dialectic
We hear a lot of talk today about the importance of openness, but hardly any about the importance of closedness. But closedness is part of the nature of thought and discovery—dialectics—itself. Without closing, the dialectic means nothing, and nothing can be learned, gained, discovered. Dialectics takes something, opens it up, finds all the parts, but it has to be