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So Herbart turns to his method of relations.
In his inaugural lecture on Plato's theory of forms Herbart first mentions his "method of relations", the logical basis for his metaphysical thought (see Section 2, below).
Aside from Herbart's textbook presentation of traditional logic (e.g., Section II of LEP), his main logical innovation is his so-called method of relations, devised as an organon for correct metaphysical thinking (SW V: 201, f).
Speculative use of the method of relations would have us consider the conflicting elements not as distinct entities in genuine opposition, but rather as members of a unifying relation.
In short, the method of relations is a way of doing metaphysics with strong Platonic and Kantian overtones: the fluctuating and conflicting plurality of sensible experience is "related" back to intelligible, "speculative" unities that allow us to organize the plurality in experience.
Both his idea of metaphysics and the method of relations will become clearer as we see them used to explain concrete psychological phenomena in Section 3. The problems of both thing and ego may be stated thus: there is a conflict between an alleged unity, on the one hand, with an empirically manifest plurality, on the other.
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Taking advantage of the clustered cells, the averaged thermo-chemical properties of the cells in the respective clusters are then used to identify the adaptive dynamic reduced chemistry through the method of direct relation graph with error propagation (DRGEP).
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