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Philosophical concept

Dialectic

Dialectic examines relations among claims and concepts in order to move from opinion toward better-grounded understanding.

Works
123
Passages
2,082
Thinkers
24
Traditions
8

Understand uses of the concept

Dialectic examines relations among claims and concepts in order to move from opinion toward better-grounded understanding.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 2,082 passages across 123 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios, Metaphysics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: dialectique, dialectic, dialectician, διαλεκτ

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 8 passages
  3. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  4. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
  5. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  7. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  8. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  9. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  10. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  11. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  12. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  13. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  14. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  15. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  16. On EndsCicero · 0 passages
  17. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  18. On the OratorCicero · 0 passages
  19. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  20. OratorCicero · 0 passages
  21. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  22. SVF I: CleanthesCleanthes · 0 passages
  23. Pearson: Cleanthes fragmentsCleanthes · 0 passages
  24. Dio Chrysostom’s Diogenic OrationsDio Chrysostom · 0 passages
  25. Introduction to the Works of Epictetus, by Elizabeth CarterElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  26. Fragments Attributed to EpictetusEpictetus · 0 passages
  27. Letter to HerodotusEpicurus · 1 passages
  28. Existentialism Is a HumanismJean-Paul Sartre · 0 passages
  29. Psychological TypesCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  30. Psychology of the Unconscious: Transformations and Symbols of the LibidoCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages