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(The) Dialectic Dialogues
For our purposes, a dialogue is primarily (particularly in philosophy) a method of inquiry and a mode of reasoning. It is a structured conversation aimed at discovering truth, testing ideas, and exposing contradictions through logical argumentation. The goal is not to lecture but to “give birth” to knowledge already within the respondent, often by revealing the flaws in their initial assumptions. The underlying principle is that knowledge is recollection; that which can be reasoned from a matured core, analogous to Kant’s Categorical Imperatives. Yet, noting the knowledge of recollection is more likely derived from the empiricism of Hume.
Here, my Dialectic Dialogue is a process where a thesis (an idea) is challenged by its antithesis (a counter-idea), leading to a conflict that is resolved in a synthesis (a new, higher-level idea). The synthesis then becomes...
