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The 22 pages that link to Dialectic, each with the reason it gives.

• RhetoricCompared with: Classical accounts distinguish dialectical inquiry from rhetoric addressed to an audience.

• German idealismRelated: Hegel uses dialectical development to explain how concepts and forms of life change.

• Georg Wilhelm Friedrich HegelRelated: Hegelian development proceeds through tensions that transform the terms in conflict.

• Socratic methodNarrower topic: The Socratic method is one influential form of dialectical inquiry.

• Ancient Greek philosophyRelated: Plato used dialectical exchange to examine definitions and pursue knowledge.

• HeraclitusRelated: Heraclitus’s paired opposites helped inspire later accounts of thought through tension.

• HegelianismRelated: Dialectical relations explain how Hegelian thought understands change.

• Dialectical behavior therapyRelated: DBT uses acceptance and change as paired truths rather than competing treatment choices.

• Dialectical materialismNarrower topic: Dialectical materialism adapts this approach to material reality.

• Peter AbelardRelated: Abelard used dialectic to investigate apparent contradictions among theological authorities.

• Alexandre KojèveNarrower topic: Kojève uses dialectical struggle to explain how social forms and historical consciousness change.

• G. W. F. HegelRelated: Hegelian development proceeds through conflicts internal to concepts and institutions.

• Slavoj ŽižekRelated: Dialectical contradiction is central to Žižek’s account of Hegel and political change.

• AcademyRelated: Dialectical examination suited the school’s pursuit of knowledge.

• Aesthetic TheoryRelated: Adorno reads artwork and society through their unresolved, mutually shaping contradictions.

• Western MarxismRelated: Dialectical analysis connects social contradictions with changing forms of consciousness.

• The GoodRelated: Plato presents dialectic as the route toward grasping the Good.

• György LukácsRelated: His account of totality and historical change draws on dialectical methods associated with Marx and Hegel.

• Marsha M. LinehanRelated: Linehan used dialectical thinking to hold validation and behavioral change together.

• Sophistic movementCompared with: It offers a model of argument oriented toward examination rather than audience persuasion.

• Essentially contested conceptRelated: Gallie’s disputes remain open to argument, so rival interpretations can challenge and refine one another.

• RamismNarrower topic: Ramus broadened dialectic into a practical method for both finding and judging arguments.