Dialectic

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#1 Tension-generating concepts made famous by Hegel as thesis-antithesis leading to synthesis. It assumes that opposing ideas, that may seem opposites and irreconcilable, actually define or require each other and can be combined or fused within a higher order unity.  
#2 See: dualism.  
#3 See: duality.  

 

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