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What is a dialectic?

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The term 'dialectic' has several meanings: 1: any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments; 2: of or relating to or employing dialectic; 3: a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction

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