We introduce a new information architecture that is a synthesis of an information structure, information flow (e.g. narrative), and information dialectic (its evolution). Insights from the memory mnemonic the method of loci and the philosophical process of dialectic are introduced. Three cumulative syntheses are presented: the organic architecture with (1) the hierarchical architecture with (2)...

This article discusses the function of dialectic in religious history, focusing on the works of two major sixth century Indian intellectuals and doxographers Bhāviveka and Haribhadra Sūri, who belonged to the competing Madhyamaka Buddhist and Jaina traditions respectively. The article studies how these two figures used medical metaphors for their dialectic purposes.

The fundamental principles of modern dialectical philosophy derive from Hegel. He sums them up as follows. `Everything is inherently contradictory ... Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality, it is only in so far as something has a contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity' (Hegel 1969, 439). In Hegel's philosophy these ideas form part of an all-embracing id...

This paper describes a universal storage structure (a dialectic storage structure), which is settled between relational and hierarchical approach. It aims to marry XML files with the TID concept and rowwith column-oriented storage. We support at first glance only nesting level of proper collections of two. Therefore, records are in general greater than in relational model (clustering of data wi...

Killer applications, such as Excel and other ones, may be retrospectively considered as potential excellent Learning Environments in different specific domains and also in meta-cognitive skills even if there was no learning intention neither in the designer nor in the user. We present here a patented methodology for knowledge acquisition and construction widely and successfully used for five ye...

Models are constructed that satisfy each dialectical scheme TAS1, TAS2, TAS3. Significantly different finite models that satisfy TAS1 and TAS2, a denumerable model that satisfies schemes TASi, i = 1, 2, 3 and an infinite hyperfinite model, with a single antithesis, that satisfies TAS1 and TAS2 are defined. It is shown that no finite model satisfies TAS3. Mathematics Subject Classifications 03B2...

Formal dialectic systems have been suggested as a means to model inter-agent communication in multi-agent systems. The formal dialectic systems of Hamblin are practical models for the computational implementation of such a system of argumentative dialogue. This paper introduces a formal framework for the specification of Hamblintype systems that has a range of benefits for theoretical work in t...

The philosophy of dialectic has always been among the most controversial and least well understood aspects of Hegelian and Marxist thought. It is rejected by many writers who are otherwise sympathetic to Marxism. One such is Marquit. In a recent article (Marquit, 1990), he criticizes the dialectical concept of contradiction. Many of his arguments will be familiar to anyone acquainted with the r...