di·a·lec·tic 
(dī′ə-lĕktĭk)
(dī′ə-lĕktĭk)n.
1. The art or practice of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
2. The process especially associated with Hegel of arriving at the truth by stating a thesis, developing a contradictory antithesis, and combining and resolving them into a coherent synthesis.
3. often dialectics (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The Marxian process of change through the conflict of opposing forces, whereby a given contradiction is characterized by a primary and a secondary aspect, the secondary succumbing to the primary, which is then transformed into an aspect of a new contradiction.
4. dialectics (used with a sing. verb) A method of argument or exposition that systematically weighs contradictory facts or ideas with a view to the resolution of their real or apparent contradictions.
5. The contradiction between two conflicting forces viewed as the determining factor in their continuing interaction.
[Middle English dialetik, from Old French dialetique, from Latin dialectica, logic, from Greek dialektikē (tekhnē), (art) of debate, feminine of dialektikos, from dialektos, speech, conversation; see DIALECT.]
di′a·lecti·cal, di′a·lectic adj.
di′a·lecti·cal·ly adv.
- incommensurability
- incommensurable
- incommensurably
- incommensurate
- incommensurately
- incommensurateness
- in commission
- incommode
- incommodious
- incommodiously
- incommodiousness
- incommodity
- in common
- incommunicability
- incommunicable
- incommunicably
- incommunicado
- incommunicative
- incommunicatively
- incommutability
- incommutable
- incommutableness
- incommutably
- incomparability
- incomparable