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(1963) Philosophy and ideology, Dordrecht, Springer.
The assertion that absolute truths are the sum of relative or partial truths and that knowledge, the ideal goal of the search for Truth, is like the limit of a series to which its partial sums converge, should be considered against the background provided by the first law of dialectics. This law lays down that all things and phenomena of Nature are connected with, dependent on, and determined by each other. Consequently, to acquire knowledge about anything in the world we must examine it in its universal connections with everything else. For if any particular thing or phenomenon has relations to things or phenomena outside itself, and these relations "make up' its nature, all things and phenomena become "meaningless' outside the system to which they are related. The doctrine that maintains that relations constitute or affect the things they relate is known as the theory of internal relations. This theory had in Hegel its modern protagonist. From Hegel it passed to Marxist-Leninist philosophy.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-3636-8_28
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Jordan, Z. (1963). The doctrine of concreteness of truths, in Philosophy and ideology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 377-384.
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