What (who) is dialectic - definition

METHOD OF ARGUMENT FOR RESOLVING DISAGREEMENT

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People refer to the dialectic or dialectics of a situation when they are referring to the way in which two very different forces or factors work together, and the way in which their differences are resolved. (TECHNICAL or FORMAL)

...the dialectics of class struggle and of socio-economic change.

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In philosophy, dialectics is a method of reasoning and reaching conclusions by considering theories and ideas together with ones that contradict them. (TECHNICAL)

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Extremely interested in other dialects and picks up on them quickly.
Leigh is clearly dialectic. Whenever she hears a new slang term, she immediately and seamlessly incorporates it into her existing vocabulary.

dialectic

I. n.

(Log.) Logic of illusion, negative procedure, progression by negation.

II. a.; (also dialectical)

Logical.

Negative, critical, exposing limits, exposing inadequacy.

Idiomatic, provincial.

Wikipedia

Dialectic

Dialectic (Greek: διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; related to dialogue; German: Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned argumentation. Dialectic resembles debate, but the concept excludes subjective elements such as emotional appeal and rhetoric (in the modern pejorative sense). Dialectic may thus be contrasted with both the eristic, which refers to argument that aims to successfully dispute another's argument (rather than searching for truth), and the didactic method, wherein one side of the conversation teaches the other. Dialectic is alternatively known as minor logic, as opposed to major logic or critique.

Within Hegelianism, the word dialectic has the specialised meaning of a contradiction between ideas that serves as the determining factor in their relationship. Dialectical materialism, a theory or set of theories produced mainly by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, adapted the Hegelian dialectic into arguments regarding traditional materialism. The dialectics of Hegel and Marx were criticized in the twentieth century by the philosophers Karl Popper and Mario Bunge.

Dialectic tends to imply a process of evolution and so does not naturally fit within classical logics, but was given some formalism in the twentieth century. The emphasis on process is particularly marked in Hegelian dialectic, and even more so in Marxist dialectical logic, which tried to account for the evolution of ideas over longer time periods in the real world.

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Pronunciation examples for dialectic

1. it's that real dialectic piece.

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2. on the Hegelian dialectic."

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3. you can call it the dialectic tradition.

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4. avoided any sort of dialectic-- regional dialects.

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5. of heroic greatness, or to advance some mystical dialectic

_ Steven Pinker _ Talks at Google

Examples of use of dialectic

1. History proceeds through a dialectic between forces which only intellectuals can effectively discern.

2. It is essential that our discussions as Americans break out of the skewed dialectic on Islam.

3. As Heraclitus, the father of dialectic philosophy, once wrote: "You cannot step into the same river twice." Bookmark to del.icio.us New anti–Semitism?

4. But the problem with the show produced by Meroz does not stem from its legal point of departure, rather from the unethical dialectic on which it relies.

5. Kate Thompson followed the family tradition by becoming a writer, swapping Marxist dialectic for fantasy and winning this month‘s Whitbread award for children‘s fiction.