The Israeli Palestinian conflict

[Occhidiangela]

I called it the result of the collision/conflict. When two pool balls collide, they don't mix, but the outcome may be that one changes condition: it falls into the pocket rather than remaining on the table. They may also just butt heads, or they may Beavis . . . whatever that means. :P

If Thesis or Antithesis is more powerful than the other, your "overtaking" synthesis being identical to one or the other sure makes sense in a purely theoretical sense.

However, in a less theoretical sense, when the 'Thesis' and 'Antithesis' collide and an outcome occurs, even an "overwhelming" thesis/antithesis will generaly emerge slightly changed for having had the encounter.

Having not read Hegel in the original German, and indeed having found Hegel extremely tough going in general, I'll not pretend to be an authority on matters Hegelian.

I am not a member of the Philosophy Department, but I do know that

"Emanual Kant was a real pissant who was very rarely stable" :D

And wasn't it Manny_Pratt who said: ""I twink, therefore I am?"

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