Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
dialectic , 2.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.
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- noun Plural form of
dialectic . - noun A
systematic method ofargument that attempts toresolve thecontradictions inopposing views orideas .
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- noun a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
Etymologies
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Examples
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But the Stoics also have devoted some pains to the latter, for they have diligently considered the methods of carrying on a discussion by that science which they call dialectics; but the art of discovering arguments, which is called topics, and which was more serviceable for practical use, and certainly prior in the order of nature, they have wholly disregarded.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Are people, today, even aware of what dialectics is and how, like with Health insurance folks, its duplicitous underpinnings operate and get people, like Rush fans, to vote against their avowed interests?
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Notwithstanding their profound and well-known differences, Hegel and Marx both find in dialectics a logical framework that allows them to articulate the rationality of a supra-historical process — the plot of freedom — that can be advanced only by individual agents and only at the price of remaining essentially opaque to them.
The Melancholic Gift: Freedom in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy and Fiction 2008
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The word dialectics still retains this meaning in the theory of education.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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One example is the idea of dialectics that Bilfinger found in the Chinese classics, and which Kant encountered in the proceedings of the Russian academy.
Kant's Philosophical Development Schönfeld, Martin 2007
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All things develop through internal contradictions, aka dialectics
Archive 2006-08-01 Bill Kerr 2006
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All things develop through internal contradictions, aka dialectics
ascending from the abstract to the concrete Bill Kerr 2006
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Reply Obj. 3: Even in speculative matters the rational science of dialectics, which is directed to research and discovery, is distinct from demonstrative science, which decides the truth.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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There is a further consideration, namely a dialectics of political exclusion that is in some ways the very opposite of what is usually believed.
MRZine.org 2009
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Nor has anyone elaborated the idea of dialectics into a methodological system in the way that Marx and Marxism did.
Pak Tea House 2008
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