164 | It is legitimate to play the devil's advocate [Socrates] |
13778 | A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions [Plato] |
8937 | Plato's 'Parmenides' is the greatest artistic achievement of the ancient dialectic [Hegel on Plato] |
2151 | Dialectic is the only method of inquiry which uproots the things which it takes for granted [Plato] |
2154 | The ability to take an overview is the distinguishing mark of a dialectician [Plato] |
4011 | For Plato, rationality is a vision of and love of a cosmic rational order [Plato, by Taylor,C] |
287 | Good analysis involves dividing things into appropriate forms without confusion [Plato] |
1644 | Dialectic should only be taught to those who already philosophise well [Plato] |
23891 | Two contradictories force us to find a relation which will correlate them [Plato, by Weil] |
5847 | It is the role of dialectic to survey syllogisms [Aristotle] |
2677 | Dialectic aims to start from generally accepted opinions, and lead to a contradiction [Aristotle] |
12260 | Dialectic starts from generally accepted opinions [Aristotle] |
7282 | Disagreement means you do not understand at all [Zhuangzi (Chuang Tzu)] |
2670 | Epicurus despises and laughs at the whole of dialectic [Epicurus, by Cicero] |
20768 | Like spiderswebs, dialectical arguments are clever but useless [Ariston, by Diog. Laertius] |
20776 | Dialectics is mastery of question and answer form [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
2661 | Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument [Cicero] |
3035 | Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers [Diog. Laertius] |
22102 | Arguing with opponents uncovers truths, and restrains falsehoods [Aquinas] |
5602 | The free dialectic opposition of arguments is an invaluable part of the sceptical method [Kant] |
15615 | Older metaphysics became dogmatic, by assuming opposed assertions must be true and false [Hegel] |
15638 | Dialectic is the moving soul of scientific progression, the principle which binds science together [Hegel] |
21767 | Dialectic is seen in popular proverbs like 'pride comes before a fall' [Hegel] |
15639 | Socratic dialectic is subjective, but Plato made it freely scientific and objective [Hegel] |
21766 | Dialectic is the instability of thoughts generating their opposite, and then new more complex thoughts [Hegel, by Houlgate] |
21978 | Hegel's dialectic is not thesis-antithesis-synthesis, but usually negation of negation of the negation [Hegel, by Moore,AW] |
20952 | Rather than in three stages, Hegel presented his dialectic as 'negation of the negation' [Hegel, by Bowie] |
19445 | A dialectician has to be his own opponent [Feuerbach] |
19444 | Each proposition has an antithesis, and truth exists as its refutation [Feuerbach] |
2897 | With dialectics the rabble gets on top [Nietzsche] |
19630 | No great idea ever emerged from a dialogue [Cioran] |
21842 | Don't assess ideas for truth or justice; look for another idea, and establish a relationship with it [Deleuze] |
21850 | Dualisms can be undone from within, by tracing connections, and drawing them to a new path [Deleuze] |
8213 | I try to analyse certain verbal concepts which block and confuse the dialectical process [Derrida] |
7982 | Instead of thesis and antithesis leading to synthesis, they now cancel out, and the conflict is levelled [Baudrillard] |
13883 | The best way to understand a philosophical idea is to defend it [Wright,C] |
4635 | Dialectic aims at unified truth, unlike analysis, which divides into parts [Baggini /Fosl] |