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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dialectic \Di`a*lec"tic\, n. Same as {Dialectics}. Plato placed his dialectic above all sciences. --Liddell & Scott. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dialectic \Di`a*lec"tic\, Dialectical \Di`a*lec"tic*al\, a. [L. dialecticus, Gr ?: cf F. dialectique See {Dialect}.] 1. Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental. 2. Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects. --Earle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dialectic adj : of or relating to or employing dialectic; "the dialectical method" [syn: {dialectical}] n 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"
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