Quantitative versus qualitative change

[wise47]

diagram. Logistic development

Logistic development (see diagram and for example my text Sociological theory) can explain a difference between a qualitative change and quantitative change. It shows that each kind of so called qualitative change, like for example liquefaction of gas, is just some form of quantitative change. Marxists are using conception of change where quantitative changes transform to qualitative change. But this idea is containing fundamental mistake that there is a difference between qualitative and quantitative change.
What I would like to emphasize is each so called qualitative change, for example the transition of water into ice, or steam into water, is actually a cumulative quantitative change; that is, a quantitative change taking place quickly over a short period of time. So there are no qualitative changes, only quantitative ones.

(the above text is from year 2008)

Gregory Podgorniak, Poland

about the author, My name is Gregory Podgorniak (brn. 01.1977, Szczecinek, West Pomerania, Poland). I am working on field of natural as well as social sciences. During philosophical studies at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (1996-1999) I was actively act in student scientific organisation, got a scientific scholarship, and one from my articles titled Circulus vitiosus and fourfold petitio principii in the system of Descartes was published in Humanistic Drafts of Publishing House of Humaniora Foundation in Poznan, no. 6, 1998. Unfortunately certain fate events made impossible to me continuing studies to master's and later doctor's degree. Thence I was forced to be content only with a title of bachelor.
Thanks to deep and penetrating researchings I was able to establish indisputably some number of my past incarnations reaching of ancient period, these data are certain, these incarnations are: Auguste Comte (1798-1857) French philosopher and sociologist, Edme Mariotte (1620-1684) French physicist and meteorologist, Aenesidemus (1 st century BC) Greek sceptical philosopher, Arcesilaus (315-241 BC) Greek sceptical philosopher, Gorgias (485-380 BC) Greek sophist.

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above text is a part of a bigger work Philosophical research which is available here: http://sresearch.scienceontheweb.net/philosophy.php
my other works are available here: http://sresearch.scienceontheweb.net/map_of_texts.php

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Your logistic development is undeniably correct and on progressively smaller scales becomes even more so.

Perhaps we could use just this thread, isolated from your other work on this site, to educate those who read here on something few others experienced.

Your entire primary schooling was in a setting where the Party was lauded, declared benevolent and correct. And immediately after, as a new teenager, the Berlin Wall came down, Eastern Europe threw a switch, and for the next three or so years Poland in particular was in flux with a divided government, hardline residue and populist revolt.

This, to my mind, suggests a microcosm in which uncovering absolute certainty may have become a psychological imperative. But clearly, having no personal experience, I may be writing fiction.

Can you review the reality and express it in this setting? My query is an interest in the period itself but also the vehemence of "indisputably" set alongside a mutually recognised, perhaps inevitable, lack of external verification. The alternative to verification is this new category of indisputable fact. Internal authority has become an epistemological lifeboat. My question is whether this relates to finding adult authority collectively enforced a false reality for decades.

[wise47]

Your logistic development is undeniably correct and on progressively smaller scales becomes even more so.

I'm glad you think so.

Can you review the reality and express it in this setting?

The loss of my mother at the age of three, when my father forced her to the United States, was particularly influential. This was precisely due to the communist regime. The regime also left its mark, impairing biological development through poor nutrition during childhood. At the age of 12, the communist regime collapsed, and I spent my youth in a more normal country. It's difficult to say what impact communism had on my later work, but it certainly left a visible mark on me.

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What you delineate "a more normal country" in the early 90s was in extreme ferment (not an unknown condition for Poland over the centuries!) with, as I recall, uncontrollable inflation and a retention of control for some while dependent on military leadership. It became, eventually, more synchronised with the EU, and stabilised to that extent.

The two decade period prior to that refocusing was itself not an entirely suppressed nation, there was a resistance visible even abroad in, for instance, its film output, but particularly in samizdat circulation, and the several negotiated windows for Solidarity were formal if experimental but can't have been invisible. And I grant these aspects can't have been clear to students in a primary setting, nor easily discussed.