Dialectics is a systems theory.
James Farmelant wrote:
> The problem lies not so much even with the use of a reductionist
> methodology in medical science as with the ideology that holds
> that reductionism is the only legitimate scientific methodology.
> That leave no room for methodologies based on an emergent
> holism or upon dialectics.
But can both methodologies be true simultaneously? Using both reductionism and dialectics seems to be having your cake and eating too. Maybe a more pragmatist approach to truth could be used with multiple methodologies.
Sam Pawlett