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Mao Zedong expressed his views on the policy in his famous February 1957 speech On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People. Mao focuses on antagonistic contradiction as the "struggle of opposites." It is an absolute and universal concept.
[6]: 95 On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People also demonstrates a view of class struggle in which class became less a matter of economic relations and increasingly a matter of revolutionary consciousness. [5]: 207 Contradictions between the people and the enemy were antagonistic contradictions. [3]: 169
[4]: 11 Through participation in material production, people develop their understanding of class relationships, social relations, and human relationships. [4]: 11–12 Thus, according to Mao, practical participation in social environments or production are the only reliable mechanism for developing useful knowledge. [5]: 59
[5] By the time of his 1908 Mathematical logic as based on the theory of types [6] Russell had studied "the contradictions" (among them the Epimenides paradox, the Burali-Forti paradox, and Richard's paradox) and concluded that "In all the contradictions there is a common characteristic, which we may describe as self-reference or reflexiveness ...
This also applies to the primitive formulas. For example: "A formula having the form S 1 V S 2 is placed into class K 2, if both S 1 and S 2 are in K 2; otherwise it is placed in K 1", and "A formula having the form ~S is placed in K 2, if S is in K 1; otherwise it is placed in K 1 ". [10]
Proof by contradiction is similar to refutation by contradiction, [4] [5] also known as proof of negation, which states that ¬P is proved as follows: The proposition to be proved is ¬P. Assume P. Derive falsehood. Conclude ¬P. In contrast, proof by contradiction proceeds as follows: The proposition to be proved is P. Assume ¬P. Derive ...
In a revised version of On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, an essay aimed to revive the Hundred Flowers campaign published on June 19 1957, Mao Zedong clarified the distinction between "beautiful flowers" and "poisonous weeds"; [18] Whether they would help to unite the people of various nationalities.
There are at least two basic kinds of contradiction: the antagonistic contradictions which exist between communist countries and their capitalist neighbors and between the people and the enemies of the people, and the contradictions among the people themselves, people unconvinced of China's new path, which should be dealt with in a democratic ...