Yes it is difficult Mike. When Lenin read The Logic, he just skipped over
this entire section of 100 pages or so. I didn't understand it all for many
years, and there is very little by way of interpretative writing by others
available.
Example of a syllogism.
All people use language.
Henry is a person
Therefore Henry uses language.
Schematically: U=P, I=P, I=U.
This deduction is true, but a little concrete consideration shows that it
is not necessarily true. Henry may turn out to be a deaf mute. Do we
conclude that he is not human? If the syllogism is interpreted as a Venn
diagram, then it is just an Abstract syllogism, which "misses the notion".
Every combination of "person", "language user" and individuals turns out to
be fallible. To understand the relation between language-use and the human
condition requires concrete investigation.
6:25am. must go ...
Andy
At 08:15 AM 28/10/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>I am struggling just to read the hegel discussion, Andy. I appreciate your
>effort to provide the concrete example with respect to union/solidarity and
>think I follow the different mediations. But where are the syllogisms? I
>guess the only way to grok this discussion is to go to the web and pull the
>entire sequence -- and, sigh -- read Hegel.
>
>Sounds like about as easy a task as to extinguish the fires that are
>tearing up our area or to find some air to breath!
>mike
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