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{\plain \b\fs26 DIALECTICS\par
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{\plain \b\fs26 \par
}{\plain \b\fs26 from Plato\'92s PHAEDRUS: \par
}{\plain \b\fs26 Socrates:. }{\plain \b\i\fs26 \'93I am myself a great lover of these processes of division and generalization; 
they help me to speak and to think. And if I find any man who is able to see "One and 
Many" in nature, him I follow...and those who have this art, I have hitherto been in 
the habit of calling dialecticians...\'94\par
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}{\plain \b\fs26 Definition of the original meaning of "dialectic" from the Oxford English Dictionary:\par
}{\plain \b\fs26               Originally, the art of reasoning or disputation by question and answer, 
'invented', according to Aristotle, by Zeno of Elea, and scientifically developed by 
Plato, by whom the term [dialectic] was used in two senses, (a) the art of definition or 
discrimination of 'ideas' (b) the science which views the inter_relation of the ideas in 
the light of a single principle ' the good'; corresponding broadly to logic and 
metaphysic. By Aristotle the term was confined to the method of probable reasoning, 
as opposed to the demonstrative method of science. With the Stoics, rhetoric and 
dialectic formed the two branches of [. . .] logic, in their application of the term; and 
down through the Middle Ages dialectica was the regular name of what is now called 
'logic', in which sense accordingly dialetic and dialectics were first used in English.\par
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}{\plain \b Both quotes from:\par
}{\plain \b http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/liu/english165/materials/class5notes.html}{\plain \b\fs26 \par
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}{\plain \b\fs26 Dialectic originally meant "conversation" or "dialogue", and Hegel's dialectic, like 
Plato's, might be called "the dialogue of mind with itself". Logic, like thinking, moves 
from opposites to opposites, posing, opposing, composing the contents of thought, 
transforming them into ever new concepts or categories. But it is by no means the 
mere application of a monotonous trick that could be learned and repeated. It is not 
the mere imposition of a recurring pattern. It may appear so in the mind of some 
historians who catalogue the living trend of thought; but in reality it is an ever 
changing, ever growing development. Hegel is nowhere pedantic in pressing concepts 
into a ready made mold. The theme of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis, like the motif 
of a musical composiiton, has many modulations and modifications. It is never 
"applied"; it is itself only an abstraction of what is really going on in Hegel's logic. \par
}{\plain \b\fs26 \par
}{\plain \b Kroner, R. Introduction to Early Theological Writings of G.W.F. Hegel, translated by T.M. 
Knox and R. Kroner, University of Chicago Press, Cicagor Illinois, p. 32 and cited in W. 
Young (1972) Hegel's Dialectical Method.\par
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}{\plain \b\fs30 An Easy Way to Understand Dialectical Thought:}{\plain \b\fs26 \par
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}{\plain \b\i\fs26 \'93thesis\'94}{\plain \b\fs26 \par
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{\plain \b\fs26 Cancel: \tab undo the structure and the relationships of an idea or an object\par
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{\plain \b\fs26 \tab \tab \tab \'97You take apart an old stone pig sty\par
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{\plain \b\fs26 Preserve:\tab sort through the premises, principles, etc and keep some while 
discarding the others\par
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{\plain \b\fs26 \'97-You save the stones, burn the wormy wooden beams in a 
campfire, and put the rusted tin in the trash\par
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{\plain \b\fs26 Transcend:\tab make something new with the pieces you\'92ve kept\par
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{\plain \b\fs26 \tab \tab \tab \'97-You make a stone wall that keeps deer out of the garden}{\plain \fs26 \par
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}{\plain \b\fs30 A Dialectic or Dialectical Relationship, then, is \'91mutual-causal\'92 or 
reciprocal\'96that is to say the two elements each affect (or change the 
behavior, form, etc) the other.   }{\plain \fs26 \par
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