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RE: [OPE] Is 'dialectic' a scientific, pre-scientific or pseudo-scientific concept?

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[Dave Z  wrote:]
>  It reminds me of something I read by Francis Wheen
> who quoted a letter from Marx to Engels regarding an article on the
> Sepoy mutiny in 1857:
> "It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case
> one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of
> course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way."
> I have no source of the quote,
 
_Collected Works_, Volume 40, page 152.
 
In solidarity, Jerry
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