dialectics

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Furthermore, Socrates’s method of gaining knowledge was to engage in dialectics with others.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

The dialectics of that change of mood are instructive.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2020

In that moment, Cardi invoked one of the oldest dialectics in black music.

From Slate • Apr. 10, 2018

His academic background was unusual: his Ph.D. was in German literature and German intellectual history, and his writing reflected that emphasis; his study of Nuyorican sociology, for example, employed Hegelian dialectics and Marxist class analysis.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2014

Aristotle made a distinction between rhetoric and dialectics.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith