Dialectic
Method of reasoning through opposition and resolution. Hegelian dialectic: thesis generates antithesis, resolved in synthesis that becomes new thesis. History progresses dialectically through contradictions. Marx materialized Hegel's dialectic: economic contradictions drive history. Socratic dialectic uses questions to reveal truth. Dialectical thinking sees contradictions as productive. Both-and rather than either-or. Applied to logic, history, and psychology. Synthesis doesn't eliminate but preserves and transcends (aufheben). Dynamic process over static categories.
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