Not sure, didn't Hegel say that there should be a synthesis step at some point? My view is that there should never be a synthesis when using these principles as tools, as both conflicting principles need to always maintain opposites.

So, more like Heraclitus's union of opposites maybe if you really want to label it?

the synthesis would be the outcome maybe? writing code that doesn't follow either rule strictly:

> Concretely related to the topic, I've often found myself inlining short pieces of one-time code that made functions more explicit, while at other times I'll spend days just breaking up thousand line functions into simpler blocks just to be able to follow what's going on. In both cases I was creating inconsistencies that younger developers nitpick -- I know I did.