Definition of "dialectics" [di•a•lec•tics]

• Plural form of dialectic. (noun)
• A systematic method of argument that attempts to resolve the contradictions in opposing views or ideas. (noun)

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• "But the Stoics also have devoted some pains to the latter, for they have diligently considered the methods of carrying on a discussion by that science which they call dialectics; but the art of discovering arguments, which is called topics, and which was more serviceable for practical use, and certainly prior in the order of nature, they have wholly disregarded."
• "Are people, today, even aware of what dialectics is and how, like with Health insurance folks, its duplicitous underpinnings operate and get people, like Rush fans, to vote against their avowed interests?"
• "Notwithstanding their profound and well-known differences, Hegel and Marx both find in dialectics a logical framework that allows them to articulate the rationality of a supra-historical process — the plot of freedom — that can be advanced only by individual agents and only at the price of remaining essentially opaque to them."