Advanced Systems-Level Problem Solving, Volume 3: Manual of Dialectical Thought Forms

✍ Scribed by Otto Laske

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2023
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This three-volume set introduces the practice of advanced, ‘dialectical’ systems-level problem solving in both the social and natural sciences. In social science, it opens new vistas regarding organizational, strategy, and work design. In the natural sciences, it provides heretofore missing conceptions of physical systems in peril due to the climate crisis. In addition, the author draws conclusions that are important for advancing generative AI. The monograph presents novel conceptual tools that directly impact the internal structure of a systems analyst’s mental processing in real time. While the first volume lays the theoretical groundwork for dialectical systems analysis, the second, focusing on the nature of work, lays bare the structure of complex thinking in terms of the ‘thought forms’ it requires. In order to facilitate better understanding of the principles taught in the first two volumes, the third volume provides a Manual of Dialectical Thought Forms, which is the only one in existence today.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Bibliography
Introduction
Some Thoughts About Thought Forms
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Overview
Bibliography
Contents
Abbreviations
Chapter 1: The Concept of Dialectics: A Framework for Its Practical Use
Overview of the Central Ideas of Dialectics
Different Views of Dialectics (See Also Book 1)
Three Models of Dialectic
The Four Moments of Dialectic
The Critical and Constructive Moments of Dialectic
Applying MELD to the Development of Human Cognition
Dialectical vs. Kantian Inquiring Systems
Digression I: Work as a Dialectical Process (See Also Book 2)
Digression II: Actuality, Empirical Existence, and Reality (See Book 1)
Equivalence of Moments of Dialectic in Bhaskar and Basseches
Transforms and the Moments of Dialectic
Bibliography
Chapter 2: The Individual Moments of Dialectic
The Dialectic of Context
Thought Contexts
The Dialectic of Process
The Dialectic of Relationship
The Moments of Dialectic Form a Set of Relationships
Constitutive Relationships
Incomplete Descriptions
The Dialectic of Transformational Systems
From Moments of Dialectic to Thought Forms
The Crucial Transition from the Second to the Third Order of Mental Complexity
Comments on the Table
Categorical Errors
Chapter Summary
Bibliography
Chapter 3: Thought Form Descriptions
Section 1: Process Thought Forms
The Essence of Process Thought Forms
Process
Thought Form Sequence
Overview of Process Thought Forms
Thought Form #1
Thought Form Contrasts
Assignment of Weights to Thought Form Uses
Thought Form #2
Examples
Interpretation
Contrast to TF #2
Thought Form #3
Examples
Interpretation
Contrasts
Thought Form #4
Interpretation
Contrasts
Thought Form 5
Examples
Interpretation
Contrasts
Thought Form #6
Examples
Interpretation
Contrasts
Thought Form #7
Contrasts
Examples
Thought Forms as Mind Openers
Section Summary
Section 2: Context Thought Forms
The Sequence of Context Thought Forms
Context Thought Forms in Detail
Thought Form #8
Contrasts
Thought Form #9
Contrasts
Thought Form #10
Transitioning from TF #10 to TF #11
Contrasts
Thought Form #11
Contrasts
Thought Form #12
Contrasts
Thought Form #13
Contrasts
Example
Thought Form #14
Contrasts
Thought Forms as Mind Openers
Section Summary
Section 3: Relationship Thought Forms
Thought Forms in Detail
Context
Transformational System
Individual Thought Forms
Thought Form #15–16
Contrasts
Thought Form #16
Thought Form #17–18
Thought Form #17
Contrasts of TF #17
Thought Form #18
Contrast of TF #18
Thought Form #19
Contrasts
Thought Form #20
Contrasts
Thought Form #21
Contrasts
Section Summary
Section 4: Transformational Thought Forms
Introduction
The Blessings and Strangleholds of Formal Logic
Example from Nature
Example of Human Society
The Sequence of Transformational Thought Forms
Thought Forms in Detail
Individual Thought Forms
Thought Form #22
Contrasts
Thought Form #23
The Nature of Development
Contrasts
Thought Form #24
Contrasts
Thought Form #25
Contrasts
Thought Form #26
Thought Form Coordination
Contrasts
Thought Form #27
Addendum on Qualitative Change and Formalism
Contrasts
Thought Form #28
The Special Case of Scoring Cognitive Interviews
The Dialectical Approach
The Logical Approach
Links of TF #28 to Other Thought Forms
Contrasts
Thought Forms as Mind Openers
Chapter Summary
Dialectical Thinking as “Deep Thinking”
Bibliography
Chapter 4: Interview/Text Scoring Materials
Compact Table of Thought Forms (Table 4.1)
Detailed Table of Thought Forms (Table 4.2)
Table of Questions About Thought Forms
Thought Forms as Mind Openers
Thought Form Selection Sheet
Thought Form Coding Sheet
Cognitive Behavior Graph
Cognitive Behavior Graph (Table 4.7)
IDM Interview Agreement Form
Otto Laske Interdevelopmental Institute
Bibliography
Index