JANINA FRANCES RUIDERA GRADE 12

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Dialectal Laws.

1) The law of the transformation of quantity into quality and vice versa.

Says that merely quantitative changes beyond certain point pass into qualitative differences.

An example is that when water gets cooler, there is a point where it is transformed from liquid to
solid form. But depending on nature, or environment we can see it differently, like when the
lake is freezing, it is frozen either not frozen. It starts at the shore with a thin layer of ice that
spreads over the lake. It gets thicker but most lakes never freeze all the way down to the bottom.
But we could say it is both solid and liquid. But still it did transformed right? On Karl Marx’s
examples are under capitalism. Whereas the capitalist gets a 600 peso product and pays worker
150 pesos for the service that has been made he has to employ workers in order to live the life
the workers have. As capitalist , he has to use money as a capital and set some money aside to
increase his wealth and if he wants to live the life more than the life of the workers that are
having , in order to do that he needs to employ more workers to double the money and increase
more of his wealth and capital. This shows the correctness of hegel’s law that merely
quantitative changes beyond certain point pass into qualitative differences. There’s practically a
difference about his examples compared to what others think that it has no point at all. I
understand his facts. From quantity where he strategies what he can get can be its quality. For
example his way of thinking using his money in order for it to grow and to increase his wealth
are the quantity and the quality that he will get is the money. There’s a little difference about it.

2) The law of interpenetration of opposites (Law of Contradiction)

The process of mutual influence of opposites. Opposites are mutually complementary sides of a
concrete unity, having mutually excluding directions of change. These sides (moments) of the
contradiction coexist in mutual dependence, mutual penetration, and mutual reflection.
Contradictions are distinguished as inner and outer, antagonistic and non-antagonistic,
fundamental and non-fundamental, particular and general. There can also be discerned
contradictions in nature (attraction – repulsion, assimilation – dissimulation, etc), objective –
subjective contradictions in social life (production – consumption, the struggle of social classes,
and others), and in people’s thinking (antinomies – contradictions, aporias, dilemmas).

If you look at a small segment of a curved line, it is not as curved as the whole line. If you make
the thought experiment that the length of the segment approaches zero, you can treat the segment
as a straight line. This is used in the development of differential and integral calculus. But as for
me it still has certain connections. Contradictions are inevitable; without them there is neither
development of the world nor evolution of our consciousness. Opposites presuppose one another
and coincide among themselves to the extent that they have same essence and they belong to a
whole that is common to them. At definite stages of development a contradiction establishes a
harmony between its sides. The equilibrium of opposites is short-lived, however, and is replaced
by disharmony and conflict, because of the tendency of each of the opposites to seize the upper
hand. In the process of continuous mutual replacement and reflection, the sides of the
contradiction sooner or later lose their relative independence and underlying definiteness, and
merge in a “third” (a new quality, an emergent), inside of which they take on sublated [1]
(virtual, conditional) being. The appearance of a new quality as the product of coincidence of the
opposites of the old quality is the culmination point of the development of a contradiction, the
contradiction is resolved dialectically, sublated, preserved as a possibility.

3) The law of the negation of negation

one of the basic laws of the dialectic, which characterizes the direction of development, the unity
of progress and continuity in development, the emergence of the new, and the relative recurrence
of some elements of the old. Let us say you have something, anything, abstract or concrete, we
can call it Thing1. If Thing1 changes in a way you think is important, you can say it has become
its own negation and you can call it Thing2. Now if Thing2 also changes in a way you think is
important, you can say it one more time has become its own negation; you can say it has become
the negation of the negation of Thing1, and you can call it Thing3. For the negation of the
negation, I have to arrange the first negation so that a second negation is possible. I think that’s
how my life is, from a baby to toddler and so on yes we transform from something higher and it
becomes more better of a better development, but it’s still me just a higher or new version of
myself.