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A '''dialectic''' or '''dialectics''' is a dialog typically between opposite viewpoints.  It can also mean the science of logic, as in referring to [[Aristotle]] or [[Thomas Aquinas]].

A '''dialectic''' or '''dialectics''' is a form of a dialog typically between individuals holding opposite viewpoints.  It can at times be used to further the process of discovery, but generally dialectics are used to advance a particular agenda.  It can also mean the science of logic, as in referring to [[Aristotle]] or [[Thomas Aquinas]].

==Background==

==Background==

==Modern usage==

==Modern usage==

In modern philosophy the word has received certain special meanings. In Kantian terminology Dialektik is the name of that portion of the ''Critique of Pure Reason''(1787) in which Kant discusses the impossibility of applying to "things-in-themselves" the principles which are found to govern phenomena. In the [[Hegelian]] system, the word resumes its original Socratic sense, as the name of that intellectual process whereby the inadequacy of popular conceptions is exposed. Throughout its history, therefore, "dialectic" has been connected with that which is remote from, or alien to, unsystematic thought, with the a priori, or transcendental, rather than with the facts of common experience and material things.<ref>[[Encyclopedia Britannica]], 1911</ref>

In modern philosophy the word has received certain special meanings. In Kantian terminology Dialektik is the name of that portion of the ''Critique of Pure Reason''(1787) in which Kant discusses the impossibility of applying to "things-in-themselves" the principles which are found to govern phenomena. In the [[Hegelian]] system, the word resumes its original Socratic sense, as the name of that intellectual process whereby the inadequacy of popular conceptions is exposed. Throughout its history, therefore, "dialectic" has been connected with that which is remote from, or alien to, unsystematic thought, with the a priori, or transcendental, rather than with the facts of common experience and material things.<ref>[[Encyclopedia Britannica]], 1911</ref>

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