Dialectics

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That branch of logic which teaches the rules and modes of reasoning; the application of logical principles to discursive reasoning; the science or art of discriminating truth from error; logical discussion.

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dialectics - a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces

Aristotelian logic, Boolean algebra, Ramistic logic, algebra of classes, algebra of relations, dialectic, doctrine of inference, doctrine of terms, epistemological logic, experimental logic, formal logic, logic, logics, logistic, material logic, mathematical logic, propositional calculus, psychological logic, psychologism, set theory