时间和空间、发展和联系、过程和系统,分别从纵横两个方向上一个比一个具体地回答了“世界以什么方式存在”、“世界存在的状态怎么样”的问题。事物既作为发展的过程而存在着,又作为联系的系统而存在着,而矛盾则是贯穿过程和系统的本质。过程论、系统论与矛盾论的统一,就是事物本来的辩证法,就是客观世界“有序化的时间结构和空间结构”((美)E·拉兹洛、H·马吉奴《当代科学综合观念的出现》,第5页)。一发展、联系与矛盾 Time and space, development and connection, process and system, and answered the questions of “how the world exists” and “how is the state of existence of the world” one by one from the vertical and horizontal directions respectively. Things exist not only as a process of development, but also as a system of connections, while conflicts are the essence of process and system. The unification of process theory, system theory and contradiction theory is the original dialectic of things, which is the orderly structure of time and space in the objective world (E · Laszlo and H. Maguind, Contemporary Scientific Synthesis The emergence of ideas ", p. 5). A development, contact and contradiction