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Noun: dialectics  `dIu'lektiks
  1. A rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
Noun: dialectic  `dIu'lektik
  1. Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
     
  2. A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction
    "this situation created the inner dialectic of American history"

See also: dialectical, dialectician

Type of: contradiction, philosophy, principle, rationale

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