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Historicism Notes:

Philosophies

  • Time as singular dimension
  • Anticipatability of events
    • Things which come to pass
    • Things which may never come to pass
  • Unknown whether an event could have occurred at the end of a different sequence
    • Inadmissible

Double Negation

  • Reinforces propensity of human thought
  • Reflect on state of reality
    • Believe it can be changed
    • It is changed by Man
  • Disposition to believing that things come to be because they should
    • Our mediation of this becomes teleological
    • Our relationship to this is ontological

Side Effect

  • Rationale for unwanted behaviour
    • Its negation is imminent
    • Tolerance for contradiction
    • Half truth
  • Able to entertain a clash of opposites
    • Provide the utility necessary to dominate
    • Will become parts of the whole
    • Control definition of