dialectics en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
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- /daɪəˈlɛktɪks/
Etymology
From Ancient Greek διαλεκτική (dialektikḗ, “the art of argument through interactive questioning and answering”), from διαλεκτικός (dialektikós, “competent debater”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “inter, through”) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).
Meanings
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(uncountable) A systematic method of argument that attempts to resolve the contradictions in opposing views or ideas.
None of these processes and modes of thought enters into the framework of metaphysical reasoning. Dialectics, on the other hand, comprehends things and their representations, ideas, in their essential connection, concatenation, motion, origin and ending. Such processes as those mentioned above are, therefore, so many corroborations of its own method of procedure.
1880, Friedrich Engels, chapter 2, in Socialism: Utopian and Scientific:The dialectics of absolute and relative, concrete and abstract, subject and object, and theory and practice is focused on some of the most important questions in philosophy.
Deriveds
Synonyms
dialectic · dialectical method
Translations (15)
pt dialética (systematic method of argument) · es dialéctica (systematic method of argument) · fi dialektiikka (systematic method of argument) · hy դիալեկտիկա (systematic method of argument) · ru диале́ктика (systematic method of argument) · it dialettica (systematic method of argument) · pa ਦਵੰਦਵਾਦ (systematic method of argument) · de Dialektik (systematic method of argument) · fr dialectique (systematic method of argument) · cmn 辯證法 /辩证法 (systematic method of argument) · pl dialektyka (systematic method of argument) · cs dialektika (systematic method of argument) · ga dialachtaíocht (systematic method of argument) · hy տրամախոսություն (systematic method of argument) · eo dialektiko (systematic method of argument)