Working with Ilya Prigogine logic: the method

Abstract

This article is based on a set of suggestions and epistemological and methodological guidelines from Ilya Prigogine in Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics (NET) (realism, historical relativism and rationalism), who clarifies, elaborates and defines them; creates the concept of experimental dialogue and dissipative structures, links them into an organized unit, revealing structure and movement of concepts, describing, understanding, explaining and transforming their logic. The methodology is interpretive in the understanding of a theoretical elaboration of the themes both explicit and implicit in the philosopher's work. Through the concept of experimental dialogue in its dialectic, it becomes possible to observe the relationship of complementarity. This helps to think in the same mental space of logic that both complement and exclude each other: realism, relativism, and the rationalism of the philosopher in his desire for both knowledge and universal values. It provides a method for studying the possibilities of life forward, in time and values, in its concrete historicity; method that, beyond the work of Ilya Prigogine, can be useful for a general epistemology.