Ah...Hegelian-speak! The Towers of Babel/Babylon have fallen and crashed in the marketplace. They cannot be rebuilt by consensus.
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Ah...Hegelian-speak! ...They cannot be rebuilt by consensus.
You of course realize that the word synthesis is older than Hegel?
Do you shun plants because they engage in photosynthesis?
Even useful hardware comes from synthesis -- e.g., photo+copier.
Whole ideas spring from the synthesis of theory with experimentation. Enormous progress springs from joining academic inquiry with empirical experience. It's not all the result of thesis and antithesis you know. Better yet, check your dictionary. Your definition is a late addition and hasn't rendered the original meaning obsolete. (Just as my life has not lost all gaity because I'm not homosexual<G>)
I pray you get my, er, drift. See, even analogies and metaphors (like "beat a dead horse" comes to mind for some reason) rely on synthesis of a current situation with a vivid image. My life and writing would sure be dull without them.
And come to think of it. Just which one of us responding like the Hegelian student here? <G> Perhaps you've become the anti-Hegelian? You've been studying it so long you've adopted a Hegelian view-point of all processes? Better be careful there -- your ideas may be coalesced and absorbed into the basis of the next thesis. <G>
Look, without a predetermined outcome, the synthesis of which I wrote had to with sparking new inspiration, not excision and elimination so as not to interfere with a predetermined goal.
Now, after all that, instead of a negative response, perhaps following my suggestion to compare and contrast those two links for common and uncommon ideas just could be safe? <G>