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Logic, that is, rationality, is the sequential unfolding of Reality, resulting from the tension between noumenal Reality as it is in-itself and Appearance, finite Reality mediated by a Consciousness. This unfolding takes the form of a dialectical progression. This Dialectic has three, distinct stages: 1. thesis ( the thesis is nothing else than the indeterminate, positive beginning of the dialectical process; the tension mentioned above results in a contradiction. The latter can only be overcome by transcending (opposing) the thesis. ) 2. antithesis ( The antithesis is the positing of the sublation (determinate negation) of the thesis ) 3. synthesis ( “divergent thinking”; here, the linear dialectical progression stops, and the contradiction which the thesis was in-itself becomes explicit. The thesis lets go of the contradictions in which it was caught up ) All Logical Patterns have their origin in this dialectical progression, and are either a Thesis, Antithesis or Synthesis.
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