dialectic

IPA: daɪʌɫˈɛktɪk

Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
(Marxism) Progression of conflict, especially class conflict.

Examples of "dialectic" in Sentences

Then this is the progress which you call dialectic?
The Marxist-Leninists call it dialectic materialism. say one thig to mask the fact that you mean the opposite.
The ancient Greeks used the term dialectic to refer to various methods of reasoning and discussion in order to discover the truth.
To become a really great lawyer you will need to internalize the process of having a dialog with the text - call it dialectic reasoning, or an internal Socratic Dialog if you must.
The caricature of the dialectic is a boiling-down of every historical or philosophical pattern to two concepts in conflict with each other — depending on the caricature, either one concept inevitably prevails, or the two are mashed up into a crude "synthesis."
Saying that, there is a certain dialectic (in the simple sense of the term) involved here, in terms of community norms that can be reasonably conceived and established within the context of both the law and wider moral/ethical considerations at the community level.
e. with reality, it was natural that the term dialectic should be again extended from function to object, from thought to thing; and so, even as early as Plato, it had come to signify the whole science of reality, both as to method and as to content, thus nearly approaching what has been from a somewhat later period universally known as metaphysics.