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A systematic method of argument that attempts to resolve the contradictions in opposing views or ideas.
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Dialectics — Di a*lec tics, n. [L. dialectica (sc. ars), Gr. ? (sc. ?): cf. F. dialectique.] 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… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
dialectics — index ratiocination Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
Dialectics — Marxists are divided on the issue of dialectics and the question of the extent to which Karl Marx embraced the theory of dialectics. Dialectics (or the dialectic, or dialectical philosophy) is a philosophical approach the roots of which can be … Historical dictionary of Marxism
dialectics — dialectic UK [ˌdaɪəˈlektɪk] / US or dialectics UK [ˌdaɪəˈlektɪks] / US noun [uncountable] 1) formal the way in which two different forces or ideas exist together or affect each other 2) a method used in philosophy to try to discover truth by… … English dictionary
Dialectics of Nature — One of the areas of debate among Marxists relating to dialectics, philosophy and science concerns the dialectics of nature. Friedrich Engels wrote about the dialectics of nature claiming that dialectics, and his three laws of dialectics in… … Historical dictionary of Marxism
Dialectics of Nature — Part of a series on Marxism … Wikipedia
Dialectics of Liberation — The congress on the Dialectics of Liberation was an international congress organised in London between 15 and 30 July 1967. It was organised by the American educationalist Joe Berke. The scope of the conference was to demystify human violence in… … Wikipedia
Dialectics of progress — The dialectics of progress is the problem that when a society dedicates itself to certain standards and those standards change, it is harder to adapt. A society that hasn t committed itself yet will not have this problem. Thus, a society that at… … Wikipedia
dialectics — Synonyms and related words: Aristotelian logic, Boolean algebra, Ramistic logic, algebra of classes, algebra of relations, dialectic, doctrine of inference, doctrine of terms, epistemological logic, experimental logic, formal logic, logic, logics … Moby Thesaurus
dialectics — n. logic; way of reasoning di·a·lec·tic || ‚daɪə lektɪk n. act of arriving at a conclusion by means of logical reasoning; logical discussion; art or science of discursive reasoning; logical contradiction used as a force to continue… … English contemporary dictionary
