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Pertaining to dialectics; logical; argumental.
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Pertaining to a dialect or to dialects.
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In the most general sense, a process involving opposites (for example, one might say that history is a dialectic of spontaneity and constraint); more narrowly, a process resulting in a synthesis or reconciliation of opposing forces or factors.
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logic; in Hegel, the development of one idea or condition into another by the process of thesis, antithesis and synthesis.
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