Ontomathematical postmodernity. I “Philosophie als strenge Wissenschaft”, but not after Husserl: Reframing Hegel’s dialectic logic

18 October 2025, Version 1
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Abstract

The first paper of a series about the rigorous and ontomathematical definition of postmodernity reinterprets Hegel’s dialectics and dialectic logic. His “synthesis”, “change”, “development”, “time” is represented as the third dimension of Hilbert space where the two others correspond to the initial and final state of whether developing “idea” or changing “object” (after Marx’s “dialectical/ historical materialism”) generating a complete description of reality therefore excluding any hidden variables in principle: after the Kochen - Specker theorem (1967) or forcing a unique probability measure after the Gleason theorem (1957). That approach is obviously geometric rather than logical, thus rather ontomathematical than ontological. Speaking loosely, dialectic logic is not logic in a formal sense: it means only the following negative result after the transition from two- to three-dimensional Hilbert space. The orthomodular lattice of subspaces (projective operators) allowing for a local (i.e., depending on a locally defined context of measurement) Boolean lattice being omnipresently homomorphic (i.e., independent of any locally defined context of measurement) in the two-dimensional case for the Hilbert meta-space of human experience, however, does not allow the same (i.e., both local and universal) Boolean lattice after complementing it by the third dimension of “time”, “synthesis”, “development”, etc. So, dialectic logic is only the “antithesis” of classical logic, but their “synthesis” is not (and fundamentally cannot be) logical, but only geometrical (furthermore originating from Hegel’s own understanding of “synthesis”: to generate a new quality).

Keywords

Gleason theorem
development
dialectical and historical materialism
dialectical logic
dialectics
Engels
“free will” theorems
Hegel
Kochen - Specker theorem
Lenin
Marx
Marxism
Marxism - Leninism
ontomathematics versus ontology
quantum mechanics
space of human experience
three laws of dialectics
time
totalitarianism

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