sublate
/səbˈleɪt/
verb
- In philosophy, to cancel or negate something while also preserving and raising it to a higher level (from Hegelian dialectics).
- The philosopher argued that modern society must sublate old traditions rather than simply discard them.
- In Hegel's system, the thesis and antithesis sublate each other to form a synthesis.
- To sublate a contradiction means to resolve it by incorporating both sides into a new understanding.
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