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dialectic

Greek term, originally associated with the philosopher Socrates' method of argument through dialogue and conversation. Hegelian dialectic, named after the German philosopher Hegel, refers to an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a thesis and its antithesis is resolved through synthesis.



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This little dialogue is a perfect piece of dialectic, in which granting the common principle,' there is no escaping from the conclusion.
Crito by Plato View in context
The little boy crowed with delight at the success of his dialectic.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
The great science of dialectic or the organization of ideas has no real content; but is only a type of the method or spirit in which the higher knowledge is to be pursued by the spectator of all time and all existence.
The Republic by Plato View in context
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