"The motion picture does not outlaw the still photograph but combines a series of them according to the laws of motion. Dialectics does not deny the syllogism, but teaches us to combine syllogisms in such a way as to bring our understanding closer to the eternally changing reality."
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Leon Trotsky in: Alan Woods, Ted Grant, Alan Woods & Ted Grant Reason in Revolt; Marxist Philosophy and Modern Science, Aakar Books, 1 January 2007, p. 93
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