dialectic
Let an agent explain dialectic in its historical forms, relay the main thinkers and their positions with attribution, distinguish Platonic, Hegelian and materialist dialectics, and present critiques neutrally.
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Understand What dialectic is.
Definition
Definition and senses.
Definition
Definition.
- What does dialectic mean, and how do its historical senses differ? definition
- Is the question about dialectic, rhetoric or formal logic? boundary
Platonic
Platonic dialectic.
Platonic
Platonic.
- How did Socrates and Plato practise dialectic, and what was its aim? provenance
- Which entry fits Socratic method? action
Modern Hegel and Marx.
Hegel
Hegelian dialectic.
Hegel
Hegel.
- How does Hegelian dialectic work, and how do scholars correct common simplifications? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Materialist
Materialist dialectics.
Materialist
Materialist.
- What are materialist dialectics in Marx, Engels and later Marxism, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Critique Critiques and alternatives.
Critiques
Critiques.
Critiques
Critiques.
- What critiques have Popper, analytic philosophers and others made of dialectic, with attribution? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Later
Later developments.
Later
Later.
- How did Adorno, Sartre and others develop dialectic in the twentieth century? provenance
- Which entry fits critical theory? action
Context Education and other traditions.
Education
Dialectic in education.
Education
Education.
- How was dialectic taught in the trivium and in medieval disputation? provenance
- Which entry fits the trivium? action
Traditions
Other traditions.
Traditions
Traditions.
- How do Indian, Buddhist and other traditions use dialectical methods? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific tradition? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Other names and narrower kinds
- Materialist Dialectics, Platonic dialectic
What it is Filled
A method of reasoning and discourse that seeks truth through the exchange and resolution of opposing arguments, from the Socratic and Platonic dialectic of question and answer, through Aristotelian and medieval dialectic as the art of argument, to Hegelian dialectic in which concepts develop through internal contradictions and their overcoming, and the materialist dialectics of Marx and Engels that applies dialectical reasoning to history and nature; the term names both a philosophical method and a theory of how contradictions develop.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain dialectic in its historical forms, relay the main thinkers and their positions with attribution, distinguish Platonic, Hegelian and materialist dialectics, and present critiques neutrally.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Opposition and resolution
- Multiple historical senses
- Method and metaphysics
- Political use in Marxism
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Use the form of reasoned exchange to manipulate rather than to reach truth.
- Attribute a dialectical scheme to a philosopher who did not use it.
- Present a contrived synthesis as agreement between positions.
- Keep arguing a position it knows to be false in order to win.
Only with a human decision
- Using structured debate to settle a question that affects people's rights.
May
- Explain dialectical methods and their history from philosophical sources.
- Set out opposing arguments fairly and work towards their resolution.
Moral aspects Filled
- Argument technique can be used to wear people down rather than persuade them.
- Political traditions have used dialectical language to justify coercion.
Who is affected
- Participants in a debate
- Students
- Audiences being persuaded
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody: a method held in common by those who use it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q190539 - registry parent class
related
- discourse - in registry terms
- Socrates - in Platonic dialogues
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - in idealist form
- rhetoric - in classical education
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.dialectic
- Wikidata: Q9453 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9453)
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Reasoning through opposing arguments
- Platonic, Aristotelian, Hegelian and materialist dialectics
- Rhetoric aims at persuasion; formal logic studies valid inference
- Not a visible object; a method expressed in dialogue and texts.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain the forms of dialectic
- relay thinkers and positions
- distinguish traditions
- present critiques
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Conflating the different senses
- Reducing Hegel to thesis-antithesis-synthesis
- Partisan presentation of materialist dialectics
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- No regulation; philosophical conventions
Context of use required Filled
- Reasoning through opposition and resolution.
- Socratic and Platonic dialectic
- Aristotelian and medieval dialectic as argument
- Kantian transcendental dialectic
- Hegelian dialectic
- materialist dialectics of Marx, Engels and later Marxists
- negative dialectics of Adorno
- dialectic in Indian and Buddhist philosophy
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q9453: dialectic - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Dialectic - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should Hegelian and materialist dialectics be separate entries?
- How should primary texts be linked?
- The registry entry has merged aliases naming two traditions; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q9453/spec.json