I’m Justin. This is a blog.
|sə-ˈblā sh ən|
For example, in the history of philosophy a certain idea is dominant in a certain period; after a time, the idea fades in its significance, or a principle is found to be false, or the problem is resolved and attention focussed on new problems. The idea of sublation is that the old idea or principle is not simply disproved and disposed of but is contained in the new higher principle that has replaced it. As another example, in our childhood we wrestle with certain problems which are forgotten by the time we are adults, but in fact it is those struggles which have formed us into the adult that we now are, which is no longer troubled by those same problems. Thus: “To supersede, put an end to, but simultaneously maintain, preserve”
Sublation, a translation of the German word aufheben, is a key concept of dialectics.