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    The contradiction between the self and the not-self can b... — Carmelics
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    The contradiction between the self and the not-self can be resolved rather than forcing us to reject both sides and start over.

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    • 1.Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre demonstrates that the I posits the not-I within itself, making opposition internal rather than external annihilation.
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    • 2.Internal opposition permits sublation (Aufhebung), where contradictory terms are simultaneously negated, preserved, and elevated into a higher unity.
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    • 3.Hegel's Logic shows that pure Being and pure Nothing do not cancel each other but resolve into Becoming, confirming that contradiction generates movement rather than collapse.
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    • 1.Dialetheism, defended by Graham Priest, holds that some contradictions are true and productive, undermining the classical assumption that contradiction forces wholesale rejection.
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    • 2.If contradictions can be truth-apt and generative, then the self/not-self opposition need not demand abandonment of both sides but can sustain a determinate third term.
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    • 1.The contradiction between self and not-self is resolved by positing a third concept, divisibility, which unites the two sides.
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    • 2.The concept of divisibility is produced by a synthetic procedure of reasoning that discovers in opposites the respect in which they are alike.
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    Notable Defenders

    AristotleancientEL Remark to §204
    Platoancient
    PlatoancientSL-M 55–6; SL-dG 34–5
    Platoancient
    PlatoancientPlato's dialogues
    SocratesancientCharacter in Plato's dialogues
    Charles TaylorcontemporaryTaylor 1975: 229–30
    Francesco BertocontemporaryBerto 2007
    G.R.G. MurecontemporaryMure 1950: 270, 302
    Gustav E. MuellercontemporaryMueller 1958
    J.M.E. McTaggartcontemporaryMcTaggart 1964 [1910]: 292
    J.N. FindlaycontemporaryFindlay 1962: 66, 69-70
    John BurbidgecontemporaryBurbidge 1981: 43–5
    Jon StewartcontemporaryStewart 1996, 2000: 41–3
    Joseph MargoliscontemporaryMargolis 2010: 193–94
    Julie E. MaybeecontemporaryMaybee 2009: 30, 600
    Julie E. MaybeecontemporaryMaybee 2009: xvii–xxv
    MaybeecontemporaryMaybee 2009: 51
    MaybeecontemporaryMaybee 2009
    Michael ForstercontemporaryForster 1993: 133
    PriestcontemporaryPriest 1989: 402
    Richard Dien WinfieldcontemporaryWinfield 1990: 56
    Robert C. SolomoncontemporarySolomon 1983: 22
    RosencontemporaryRosen 2014: 122, 132
    Stanley RosencontemporaryRosen 1982: 30
    W.T. Stacecontemporary
    W.T. StacecontemporaryStace 1955 [1924]: 93, 97, 286
    WinfieldcontemporaryWinfield 1990: 56
    David Humemodern
    G.W.F. HegelmodernEL §86, §87; SL-M 82; SL-dG 59
    G.W.F. Hegelmodern
    G.W.F. HegelmodernEncyclopedia Logic (EL-GSH), Remark to §81
    G.W.F. HegelmodernEncyclopedia Logic §§204–210
    G.W.F. HegelmodernPhenomenology of Spirit §79 (Miller translation)
    G.W.F. HegelmodernPhenomenology of Spirit §79; Science of Logic (SL-dG 33; SL-M 54); Encyclopedia Logic §82
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernEncyclopedia Logic §§107, 109, 111
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernSL-dG 33; SL-M 54; PhG §79; EL §236
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelmodern
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernEL §44 and the Remark to §44
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernEncyclopedia Logic §§81, 82
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegelmodern
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernPhenomenology of Spirit §50
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernEncyclopaedia Logic (EL) §§206-208
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernEncyclopedia Logic (EL) §§95–6
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernEL-GSH Remark to §87; EL Remark to §162; SL-M 43–44; SL-dG 24
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernEncyclopedia Logic (EL) §§43–44, §79
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernEL §§94, 132, 147, 234–5; SL-M 505–7, 547, 822–3; SL-dG 443–4, 483, 733–4
    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelmodernSL-M 54; SL-dG 33; PR §31; EL-GSH Remark to §81
    HegelmodernScience of Logic (SL-M 105; SL-dG 80); Encyclopedia Logic §88
    HegelmodernEncyclopedia Logic (EL) §§79, 82; Phenomenology
    Hegelmodern
    HegelmodernSL-M 83; SL-M 55–6; SL-dG 60; SL-dG 34–5; EL-GSH Remark to §87
    HegelmodernEL §15
    HegelmodernSL-M 55–6; SL-dG 34–5; PR, Remark to §31; cf. EL Remark to §81
    Hegelmodern
    Immanuel KantmodernCritique of Pure Reason, Bxxv–xxvi
    Immanuel KantmodernCritique of Pure Reason, Bxx–xxi, A327/B384
    Immanuel Kantmodern
    Johann Gottlieb FichtemodernThe Science of Knowledge, I: 108-10; Fichte 1982: 108-9
    Kantmodern

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    The work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte (see entry on Fichte) showed Hegel how dialectics can get beyond Kant—beyond the contradictions that, as Kant had shown, reason (necessarily) develops on its own, beyond the reductio ad absurdum argument (which, as we saw above, holds that a contradiction leads to nothingness), and beyond Kant’s skepticism, or Kant’s claim that reason’s contradictions must be reined in by the understanding and cannot count as knowledge. Fichte argued that the task of discover
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