Logic Must Justify Its Own Beginning: It Must Become “Dia-logic”

ABSTRACT In this section, Bibler discusses the minutia of logic, specifically the development and maturation of logic as well as the self-justification of logic. Bibler points out that, in the science of logic, there is a problem of beginning and its justification. This problem was rightly identified by Hegel, but Hegel’s logic falls short in regard to logical justification. The paradoxical self-justification is, in Bibler’s view, the weak point of Hegel’s system and is subsequently also what we find in Marx’s Capital. What we need is a logic that can justify itself, a real logic, and not just Hegel’s “semi-logic.” Only this (real) logic is able to explain the process of transition from the old theory to the new one—the process by which new theories are developed.