Relativistic Dialectics            Relativistic Dialectics
Georges Metanomski
Structure and references

In one of the letters written to the Infeld group in Warsaw Einstein wrote:
"A new manner of thinking is essential if humankind is to survive."

  
     Structure and references

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PRECIS OF RD. STRUCTURE AND REFERENCES.
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NOTE:
Prior to posting an extensive version of RD, we shall
write a precis presenting it in brought strokes 
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FOREWORD
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In one of the letters written to the Infeld group in
Warsaw Einstein wrote:
 
"A new manner of thinking is essential if humankind is
to survive."

Relativistic Dialectic is a trial to determine such a
new manner of thinking by extending Relativity from
Physic over the entire human Universe of Discourse.  
 
Physics admits exclusively relative propositions. When
we say that a stone is heavy, we imply a relation to the
earth: we know that it would be quite light on the moon,
that in the cosmic space its weight would totally
disappear. To talk about stone's weight as such, without
specifying a referential (see Glossary of ref1).
would be absurd.
 
In the human/social domain absolute propositions are
equally absurd, but we lack an authority, a humanistic
Galileo, or Einstein, to reenforce this Generalized
Principle of Relativity.

Somebody proposing a physical theory based upon absolute
propositions would simply make himself ridiculous.
Doing it in the human/social he would have all chances
to found an Ideology, a Religion, an Empire. An Ideology,
a Religion, un Empire which would be based upon dogmatic,
meaningless, often Auschwitz-like principles.
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STRUCTURE
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1.FOUNDATIONS
Foundations of a theory are defined extensionally (ref1: 
Definitions) as assertions taken within the theory as
granted, without proof. 
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1.1.EXTERNAL FOUNDATIONS
External Foundations of a theory "founded" in some
"founding theory" are assertions of the founding
theory taken by the founded theory as granted.
One talks sometimes, for instance, about epistemology
as founded in ontology, or about set theory as
founded in logic. 
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1.1.1.PHYSICS
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Being an extension of Physical Relativity over the whole
human Universe of Discourse (UH), RD has by definition its
roots in Physics. Let us note that we coincide here with
the Vienna Circle which considered Physics as fundamental
scientific domain. 
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1.1.2.ONTOLOGY
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1.1.3.MIND 
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1.1.4.HISTORY
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1.2.INTERNAL FOUNDATIONS
Assertions of a theory fall into three general classes:
 
-Axioms, which we understand as defined in
 ref1: "Dogma and Axiom".
 
-Definitions, which we understand as described in
 ref1: "Definitions".
 
-Theorems, understood as discussed in
 ref1: "Fuzzy Inferencing".
 
-Internal Foundations are Axioms and Definitions of
 the theory.      
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1.2.1.DEFINITIONS OF RD 
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1.2.2.AXIOMS OF RD
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2.THEOREMS OF RD
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REFERENCES:
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ref1: Georges Metanomski
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/metanomskiindex.htm
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ref2: Jud Evans 
http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/index.htm
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ref3: Antonio Rossin ( http://www.flexible-learning.org ) 
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ref4: Sartre "l'Etre et le Néant"
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ref5: Sartre "Critique de la raison dialectique"
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ref6: Sartre "Réflexions sur la question juive"
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ref7: Heidegger "Sein und Zeit"
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ref8: Bachelard "l'Eau et les Rêves"
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ref9: Popper and Eccles "The Self and its Brain"
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ref10: Fraenkel and Bar-Hillel "Foundations of Set Theory
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