Crossword clues for dialectics
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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 discriminating truth from error; logical discussion. Note: Dialectics was defined by Aristotle to be the method of arguing with probability on any given problem, and of defending a tenet without inconsistency. By Plato, it was used in the following senses:
Discussion by dialogue as a method of scientific investigation.
The method of investigating the truth by analysis.
The science of ideas or of the nature and laws of being -- higher metaphysics. By Kant, it was employed to signify the logic of appearances or illusions, whether these arise from accident or error, or from those necessary limitations which, according to this philosopher, originate in the constitution of the human intellect.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (plural of dialectic English)Category:English plurals 2 A systematic method of argument that attempts to resolve the contradictions in opposing views or ideas.
WordNet
n. a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
Usage examples of "dialectics".
This transcendent political apparatus corresponds to the necessary and ineluctable transcendent conditions that modern philosophy posed at the pinnacle of its development, in Kantian schematism and Hegelian dialectics.
In following the development of weaponry from the primitive through the sophisticated I'd noted that weapons and defenses and new weapons really did appear to arise in response to each other with such a chartable predictability that the area might well be viewed as one of the few classic examples of a dialectic doing just what dialectics are supposed to dothesis, antithesis, synthesis, ad nauseum.
Yet the theme was good, and timely, and heartfelt, and White preserves an awareness of persons and aerates the dialectics with traits of character and colloquial asides.