dialectic

About 3.62 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
2. noun A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.

   This situation created the inner dialectic of American history.

3. noun development by way of overcoming internal contradictions
4. adjective Dialectical (of or relating to dialectic)
5. adjective Dialectal (of or relating to a dialect).

Similar words

dialectical interaction debate ratiocination argumentation logic reasoning discussion disputation discourse

Often followed by

of between is and in that as to which

Word family

dialectics