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Hegelian dialectic
noun
- an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition thesis is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition antithesis, the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition synthesis.
Hegelian dialectic
/ hɪˈɡeɪlɪan, heɪˈɡiː- /
noun
- philosophy an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth (synthesis)
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