2 . SOCIAL SCIENTIST
With Kishore Theckedath's article, we honour our pledge to the readers to have at least one article on some aspect of Marx's and EngePs work in every issue of the journal during this Marx centenary year. There is a common tendency among many who claim adherence to Marxism to deny that there is dialectics in nature. Since dialectics, they argue, cannot be conceived as existing outside human experience of the world and practice, to seek dialectics in nature, as distinct from the human appropriation ot nature, is to indulge in metaphysics. Theckedatb is concerned with combating this position. With a variety of illustrations drawn from different sciences, he shows how scientific findings validated the view tllat th^ pi^nciples of dialectic ^p^ate ia^llwiturrt prcimses.iJt m tot just* a matter of fitting pheiio^ax po$^fiW^ to suiter pet thiewy*! He argues thamte use of the dialectical wtftod^ helps tbe^ scientific s^arob for new diseo^erieg. At a^lfjtr^^t^vel N ^^h^sdiow prcdwitlvei oaomiefxuhx the dev^l^ m»t 'of |^ii;nter sfciendey aafe crucially Uttk^d to the fact that ^ekQd^&a^dm&tbematicitos often instinctively think diatecticalty wbw^h^y cwe^rw coatr&di^ioas m thebry^ ^
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