Oppositional logic encompassing requisite variety

Oppositional Logic as Comprehensible Key to Sustainable Democracy (Part #2)

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Democracy is seemingly about the confrontation and configuration of alternative perspectives. Given the existence of a highly obscure academic preoccupation with the logic of opposition, there would seem to be strong case for exploring what those academic insights have to offer in informing a more coherent approach to the incommensurable perspectives with which governance is obliged to deal.

As noted above, the arguments are summarized separately (Neglected recognition of logical patterns -- especially of opposition, 2017) and are the focus of a forum on Oppositional Geometry: mathematics and philosophy of opposition -- with a specific focus on "oppositional logic", as discussed in the main paper.

Of particular relevance is the capacity to transcend the binary logic which is seemingly the primary mode favoured in politics -- government versus opposition -- and readily to be understood as reinforcing its inadequacies and dysfunctionalities at this time. Typically political discourse frames any other perspective as "illogical" -- at best.