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Categories of Pure Mind as the Foundation of Transdisciplinary Thinking
Yuriy Rotenfeld
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2025.03.005
Luhansk State University named after V.I. Dahl, Lugansk, Lugansk People’s Republic (LNR)
The article presents an original concept of a universal philosophical language capable of transcending the boundaries between individual sciences and serving as a foundation for transdisciplinary thinking. This approach, developed by the author since the 1980s, is based on particular and general comparative concepts—concepts of practical mind and categories of pure mind. Therefore, the key element of the concept is the category of “particular and general”, which fundamentally differs from the traditional category of “part and whole”. This allows for the description of both structural and functional aspects of complex systems not only at the interdisciplinary but also at the transdisciplinary level. The primary categories of thought—Identity, Difference, Correlated, Opposite, and others—are regarded as universal notions that connect levels of reality and ensure the integration of individual sciences. Unlike contemporary transdisciplinary concepts based on Basarab Nicolescu’s logic of the included middle and Edgar Morin’s dialogics, the author’s theory is built on the ultimate general Hegelian notion of “concrete identity” and its differentiation into a multitude of “concrete differences”—comparative concepts. As a result, a unique philosophical language has been developed, presented within the framework of the Philosophical Matrix as a system of categories of pure mind capable of describing the dynamics and wholeness of complex processes at the transdisciplinary level. The article is intended for researchers interested in the philosophical foundations of transdisciplinarity, the theory of complexity, and the development of universal categories of thought.
specific sciences, general knowledge, concepts of practical mind, comparative concepts, categories of pure mind, holographic paradigm, logic of the included third, transdisciplinary language, philosophical matrix, cumulative theory
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