Other forms: dialectics
Dialectic is reasoning that tests an idea against its opposite. Hegelian dialectic, the dialectic of history, a dialectic method.
The Greek form was argument by question and answer, which is how Plato wrote philosophy. The later sense, thesis meeting antithesis and producing synthesis, is the one most people mean, and Hegel is usually credited with it.
1noundialecticReasoning that tests an idea against its opposite.
“In Marx's view, history moves forward through a dialectic of opposing classes.”
dialectic is a reasoning.
Greek dialektike means the art of argument by question and answer, from dialegesthai, to converse.
Ancient Greek
διαλεκτική — the art of argument through interactive questioning and answering
Latin
dialectica
Old French
dialectique
English, today
dialectic
Built from
From Old French dialectique, from Latin dialectica, from Ancient Greek διαλεκτική (“the art of argument through interactive questioning and answering”), from διαλεκτικός (“relating to dialogue”), from διαλέγομαι (“to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (“through, across”) + λέγω (“to speak”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA