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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some light tanning due to age. Gift message in front.. Year 1973. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> THE claim that reality is at base energetic and paradoxical was put forward by Heraclitus and later by Hegel. However despite obvious relevance to contemporary scientific investigation modern philo- sophy has lacked a logic of change. This serious omission is now rectified by the publication of The Paradoxical Nature of Reality which can claim to be the definitive book of a revolutionary metaphysics. For the first time a real antithesis to standard logic is outlined. This does not imply that ordinary logic is arbitrarily repudiated but there is conceptional libera- tion whereby standard logic is transferred from its static central position to become an element in a wider necessitation. Whenever we speak to define things particularly at a dogmatic level we use the principle of identity and so bring into play the tautological system of logic. However the author shows that the innate flux of the experiential moment demands that we disclose the non-tautological system of logic. Paradoxically energetic process is used as the basis for the non- tautological foundations. It is shown that the aim of the new metaphysics is not to offer a facility for further dogmatic illustration of the world but to render interim and paradoxical all dogmatic ideas and selective truths. The immediate consequence of the new philosophy is expressed in the ambiguity of deter- minate and indeterminate states and here problems relating to sub-atomic physics are discussed and reassessed. (LL)