Keeping with my promise to make my unpublished draft manuscript about dialectical materialism––––available as a serial, I have copy-edited and prepared the second chapter, turned it into a PDF, and provided the download link at the bottom of this post. This chapter is called "Dialectical Logic Defined" and it is focused on looking at the simplest definition of dialectical logical, while relating it to analytical logic.As noted in previous posts about this retired manuscript, there are aspects about this project that I'm now ambiguous about. One of the things that bothers me here, though I did try to account for this bothersomeness in the draft a little bit, is the way in which I represent dialectics according to the formalization of analytical logic. Although I did qualify that it was a crude analogy, and that you really can't formalize dialectics in the same way, I'm unsure now if I should have just dropped this attempt from the get-go… I don't know if it is helpful and, even worse, it opens the door to criticisms that I am uninterested in turning into my metaphorical hill to defend. Still, keeping with my promise to provide the original manuscript as it was, and since I don't have the energy to make substantial edits for a retired manuscript (copy-editing is boring enough), I haven't changed that aspect. From what I recall (but I'll have to see when I look at the later chapters) the analogical formalization comes up again, so if I wasted time killing it here then I would have to kill it elsewhere and the whole thing would become a mess. (Dialectics in action: if I make changes without looking at the whole thing as a totality then I'll have problems!)Also, for those interested in the general outline of the book––if you want to know how many chapters it possesses and where it's going––here is the table of contents:Chapter Three: Pseudo-dialecticsChapter Four: Unity of OppositesChapter Five: The Fundamental Contradiction of Dialectical MaterialismEpilogueSo, yeah, a mini-manual: five chapters with an introduction and epilogue––it's not very long. Think of it kind of as a non-fiction novella about materialist dialectics. If you've been following it this far, and are interested in the next chapter, here it is: