Tuesday, October 15, 2019

Dynamic Matter and Logic

Prior to Marx, Matter is traditionally conceived to be inert.  In contrast, he conceives it be dynamic, the Logic of which is Dialectical.  However, since that Logic has already been ascribed to Immaterial processes, by Hegel and others, it is not proper to Matter.  Instead, because the Form-Matter relation is that of Unity-Multiplicity, the proper character of dynamic Matter can only be Becoming-Multiple.  That is why it has been proposed here that because Causality is dynamic, Material Causality properly conceived is Diversification, not the Aristotelian 'inert substratum'.  Similarly, therefore, a Logic of Matter conceived as dynamic is that of One-Becoming-Many.  Now, by representing the initial One in that pattern as the Universal of the Many, a part of the Many can be represented as a Particular, or as an Instance, of that Universal.  In other words, the standard processes of traditional Logic--Universalization, Particularization, and Instantiation--are all derivable from what can be called Material Logic, i. e. in which Matter is conceived as dynamic.

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