Dialectic

Dialectic , also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to <a href="/facts/Dialogue/a3etwdsd">dialogue</a> between people holding different <a href="/facts/Opinion/7Y89Bt0g">points of view</a> about a subject but wishing to arrive at the <a href="/facts/Truth/NyQmBtUC">truth</a> through reasoned <a href="/facts/Argument/1K1e3Xg4">argument</a>. Dialectic resembles <a href="/facts/Debate/B76DJtj3">debate</a>, but the concept excludes <a href="/facts/Subjectivity/XVvftgCU">subjective</a> elements such as <a href="/facts/Emotional_appeal/41M59h6N">emotional appeal</a> and <a href="/facts/Rhetoric/mB9np26l">rhetoric</a>. It has its origins in <a href="/facts/Ancient_philosophy/73cd664F">ancient philosophy</a> and continued to be developed in the <a href="/facts/Medieval_philosophy/f1PmX7FB">Middle Ages</a>.
<a href="/facts/Hegelianism/vh0s6AAK">Hegelianism</a> refigured "dialectic" to no longer refer to a literal dialogue. Instead, the term takes on the specialized meaning of development by way of overcoming internal <a href="/facts/Contradiction/PQHH5a2J">contradictions</a>. <a href="/facts/Dialectical_materialism/81yjAzlf">Dialectical materialism</a>, a theory advanced by <a href="/facts/Karl_Marx/CXYTK95X">Karl Marx</a> and <a href="/facts/Friedrich_Engels/bYNwAon1">Friedrich Engels</a>, adapted the Hegelian dialectic into a <a href="/facts/Materialist/VKAovnPt">materialist</a> theory of history. The legacy of Hegelian and Marxian dialectics has been criticized by philosophers, such as <a href="/facts/Karl_Popper/RpLqMrz5">Karl Popper</a> and <a href="/facts/Mario_Bunge/GWxwT2dB">Mario Bunge</a>, who considered it unscientific.
Dialectic implies a developmental process and so does not fit naturally within <a href="/facts/Classical_logic/ls62MAms">classical logic</a>. Nevertheless, some twentieth-century logicians have attempted to formalize it.

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Dialectic