That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.

Dialectics is the study of logic and the use of logic to win arguments and prove theories. Disputation and debate were najor components of the medieval education and dialectics was necessary to both these disciplines.

a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces

systematic reasoning, exposition, or argument that juxtaposes opposed or contradictory ideas in pursuit of resolving their conflict.

As employed by the Greeks and the Medieval Scholastics, dialectic involved the use of logic and reasoning by discourse in order to refute the views of ones opponents by drawing unacceptable consequences from there premises.

is the systematic analysis of the tension or interconnections between opposites (Bhasker, 1983). Systematically understanding the inconsistencies, tensions, or contradictions between subject and object.

From the Greek words for dispute and debate, this is the science of the general laws governing the development of nature, science, society and thought. It considers all phenomena to be in movement and in perpetual change. Marxism linked this concept to materialism and showed the process of development in all things through struggle, contradiction and the replacement on one form by another.