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POLAR STRUCTURE, DIPOLE AND DICHOTOMY.

The concept of polarity may be very simply illustrated with the example of 
magnetism. A magnetic pole, say the positive one, is a concrete entity with 
specific physical properties: it attracts or pushes away other poles, respectively 
negative and positive, it generates, when moved, electric field, etc. 

Nevertheless, it is not autonomous and exists only in connection with a negative 
pole. A magnetic bar with a positive and a negative extremity, when cut in the 
middle does not produce a negative and a positive half-bar, but two smaller 
magnetic bars, each provided with both opposite poles

We shall see in further chapters that polar dipole is a fundamental structure of 
human reality.

As POLARITY and (POLAR) DIPOLE imply on the face of it a `hard` scientific context, 
we shall usually replace them in the `soft` human context with more `human` synonyms, 
respectively with DIALECTIC and (DIALECTIC) DICHOTOMY. POLE of DIPOLE will be 
synonymous with TERM of DICHOTOMY.

Note: For want of a better term we use "Dichotomy" as a neologism, homonymous, 
but not identical with its traditional meaning similar to that of "antinomy". 
Unlike the contradictory terms of an antinomy, the terms of our 
"(Dialectic) Dichotomy" are COMPLEMENTARY.
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