Gradual quantitative changes accumulate until, at a threshold, they trigger a sudden change in kind rather than degree.
Water warmed degree by degree seems unchanged until it hits the boiling point, when it suddenly becomes steam — quantity flipping into quality.
The image Shore uses for it, in our paraphrase.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
Small changes of degree can pile up until, at some threshold, they amount to a change of kind. Hegel's model is water: warmed bit by bit, then suddenly boiling.
Spirit ripens quietly and gradually toward a new form; then, like a child being born, the new world arrives all at once, "in one flash."
Put simply Hegel: "Spirit", the shared life of humanity, matures slowly and quietly toward a new form. Then, like a child being born, the new world arrives all at once, "in one flash."
For Freud, neurosis and psychosis lie on one continuum of repression, differing in degree; Shore draws the consequence that everyone is mentally ill, since nobody lacks repressed trauma.
Put simply Freud: milder disorders ("neurosis") and severe ones ("psychosis") differ only in degree, both coming from repression. Shore draws the conclusion that everyone is mentally ill, since nobody lacks repressed trauma.
In the text In "Neurosis and Psychosis" (1924; Riviere translation), Freud writes that "Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id", and psychosis of a like disturbance between the ego and the outer world.
The twentieth century matters because its stakes are so high: death tolls so vast that, as Hegel describes, a change of scale becomes a change of kind.
Put simply Shore: the twentieth century matters because so much was at stake. Its death tolls were so vast that, as Hegel puts it, a change in size becomes a change in kind.
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
HegelSmall changes of degree can pile up until, at some threshold, they amount to a change of kind. Hegel's model is water: warmed bit by bit, then suddenly boiling. L4 · 16:53
ShoreThe twentieth century matters because its stakes are so high: death tolls so vast that, as Hegel describes, a change of scale becomes a change of kind. L25 · 29:45
Shore likens the twentieth century's death tolls to what Hegel describes as changes in scale becoming changes in kind.
Terms that appear in the same claims.