Chapter 7/2

Definition

I use DIALECTIC in a broader, and more inclusive sense than many others, but I use bipolarity in a narrower, more particular sense. In this chapter I give it specific definition: It is a relationship between two seemingly incompatible opposites, a relationship in which neither pole is true by itself. It is not, as many say, a relationship of opposites in which both poles are paradoxically true. The poles are true only in the DIALECTICal tension between them. Truth always lies somewhere between the poles, never at the pole. Sometimes it is almost indistinguishable from a polar position, but still unpolarized, still in tension with the other pole.