Dialectic of Fragments:

Dialectic Search

We introduce Hegel and Fichte’s dialectic as a search meta-heuristic for constraint satisfaction and optimization. Dialectic is an appealing mental concept for local search as it tightly integrates and yet clearly marks off of one another the two most important aspects of local search algorithms, search space exploration and exploitation. We believe that this makes dialectic search easy to use ...

Dance of the Dialectic

ing vantage points that bring out the differences between two or more aspects of an interactive system also highlights the asymmetry in their reciprocal effect. Granted such reciprocal effect, production was said to play the dominant role on all five levels of generality on which Marx operates. But it is only by abstracting production as a vantage point that its special influence on other econo...

Dialectic of Malandrotsm

Dialectic in Western Marxism

The fundamental principles of modern dialectical philosophy derive from Hegel. He sums them up as follows. `Everything is inherently contradictory ... Contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality, it is only in so far as something has a contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity' (Hegel 1969, 439). In Hegel's philosophy these ideas form part of an all-embracing id...

The Dialectic Storage Structure

This paper describes a universal storage structure (a dialectic storage structure), which is settled between relational and hierarchical approach. It aims to marry XML files with the TID concept and rowwith column-oriented storage. We support at first glance only nesting level of proper collections of two. Therefore, records are in general greater than in relational model (clustering of data wi...