1580s, earlier dialatik (late 14c.), from Old French dialectique (12c.), from Latin dialectica, from Greek dialektike (techne) "(art of) philosophical discussion or discourse," fem. of diale [..]

{Gk. διαλεκτικη [dialektikê]} Process of thinking by means of dialogue, discussion, debate, or argument. In ancient Greece, the term was used literally. Parmenides and the other Eleatics used such met [..]

An interpretation of change emphasizing the clash of opposing interests and the resulting struggle as the engine of social transformation.

1. Language. Investigating the truth in ideas through juxtaposition of opposing opinions. 2. Socrates conservational mode of argument. 3. Hegel's pattern of statement, contradiction and reconcili [..]

A form of reasoning or analysis involving the use and possible reconciliation of opposites. See sociospatial dialectic.

Dialectic refers to the process of revealing contradictions.

(n) any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments(n) a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction(adj) of or rela [..]

concerning logical reasoning and argument (see antithesis, synthesis, thesis).

Philosophical enquiry which tries to find a higher way between two contradictory views. Diamond Sutra

Debate, discourse.