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| 1. | Dialectic generally means 'of the nature of the dialogue', which is a conversation between two persons. It involves a cross-examination, by which truth is arrived at. |
| 2. | Socrates used this mode of discourse in the Dialogues of Plato. Socrates (Plato) believed the dialectic was the only method by which the truth could be arrived at. |
| 3. | The art or practice of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments. |
| 4. | The process especially associated with Hegel of arriving at the truth by stating a thesis, developing a contradictory antithesis, and combining and resolving them into a coherent synthesis. b. Hegel's critical method for the investigation of this process. |
| 5. | Often dialectics. (used with a sing. or pl. verb). The Marxian process of change through the conflict of opposing forces, whereby a given contradiction is characterized by a primary and a secondary aspect, the secondary succumbing to the primary, which is then transformed into an aspect of a new contradiction. b. The Marxian critique of this process. |
| 6. | Dialectics. (used with a sing. verb). A method of argument or exposition that systematically weighs contradictory facts or ideas with a view to the resolution of their real or apparent contradictions. |
| 7. | The contradiction between two conflicting forces viewed as the determining factor in their continuing interaction. |