Will and Negation

In systems of Dialectics, doubting is a species of Negation, which, in coordination with a synthesizing process, i. e. Sublation, produces Absolute Knowledge. For Dialectical Materialists, thinking is, essentially, negative--it negates existing 'material' conditions, i. e. it expresses a conflict with them. Implicit in this Materialist concept of Negation is the notion of obliteration. Now, while obliteration can be glossed as the absolute elimination of its object, in actuality, the destruction of something does not effect its complete disappearance, but consists in the transformation of it into another state, e. g. to ashes or to dust. In other words, obliteration in experience is never more than a variation of conditions, which requires Will, the principle of Diversification. Accordingly, Dialectical 'Negation' is a mode of volitional thinking, just as 'the negation of X' always means ' other than X'.