
[BEST OF] On Contradiction - Mao
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Mao's Argument for Universality
Mao is making claims about universality here, the idea that contradiction exists within everything. But he's very careful to point out that we need to understand contradictions in their particularity. Mao doesn't like dogmatism. He doesn't like mechanistic applications of reason and metaphysics. That dialectical approach to knowledge sort of hedges against the worst excesses of both sides of that debate.
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