Διαλεκτική
dialectic
Translated by Rachel Price2 May 2002Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the demonstrative [art].1
"[He] having grasped little of dialectic."2
Dialectic is knowledge of true things and of false things and of things which are neither [true nor false]. It is about signifiers and things signified.3 Or in this way: a syllogistic method through opinions concerning all that is put forward. It is called dialectic from conversing [dialegesthai]; and conversing [consists] in both asking questions and answering.4
Dialektos: look under 'language' [glotta];5 and look under 'exercise [gymnasia].6 Dialectic differs from rhetoric. Look also under 'discursive reasonings' [diexodikous].7
A Dialogue is an argument composed out of questioning and answering about some one thing discussed by the philosophers, or some one thing discussed by the politicians, about appropriate sketching [of] characters from adopted perspectives, and about a style of speaking. Dialectic is a skill of words, through which we refute and construct arguments by questioning and answering those conversing. There are two characters of Platonic argument, the ones below:8
One that guides and one that enquires. The one that guides divides into theoretical and practical. The theoretical [kind divides] into the natural world and the logical. The practical [kind divides] into the ethical and the political. And there are 2 characters of arguments the enquiring [kind]: training and competitive. And of the competitive: demonstrative and refutative. Some divide them otherwise: into dramatic, narrative, mixed. But these people divide more like a tragedian than a philosopher. An argument that is not a dialogue is called an argument narrated in the first person.9
"[He] having grasped little of dialectic."2
Dialectic is knowledge of true things and of false things and of things which are neither [true nor false]. It is about signifiers and things signified.3 Or in this way: a syllogistic method through opinions concerning all that is put forward. It is called dialectic from conversing [dialegesthai]; and conversing [consists] in both asking questions and answering.4
Dialektos: look under 'language' [glotta];5 and look under 'exercise [gymnasia].6 Dialectic differs from rhetoric. Look also under 'discursive reasonings' [diexodikous].7
A Dialogue is an argument composed out of questioning and answering about some one thing discussed by the philosophers, or some one thing discussed by the politicians, about appropriate sketching [of] characters from adopted perspectives, and about a style of speaking. Dialectic is a skill of words, through which we refute and construct arguments by questioning and answering those conversing. There are two characters of Platonic argument, the ones below:8
One that guides and one that enquires. The one that guides divides into theoretical and practical. The theoretical [kind divides] into the natural world and the logical. The practical [kind divides] into the ethical and the political. And there are 2 characters of arguments the enquiring [kind]: training and competitive. And of the competitive: demonstrative and refutative. Some divide them otherwise: into dramatic, narrative, mixed. But these people divide more like a tragedian than a philosopher. An argument that is not a dialogue is called an argument narrated in the first person.9