Hypertext Webster Gateway: "dialectic"
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) 1.7 (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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