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Full Idea
Dialectic is when men converse by putting short questions and giving brief answers to those who question them.
Clarification
'Dialectic' is the impersonal pursuit of truth
Gist of Idea
Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers
Source
Diogenes Laertius (Lives of Eminent Philosophers [c.250], 3.1.52)
Book Ref
Diogenes Laertius: 'Diogenes Laertius', ed/tr. Yonge,C.D. [Henry G. Bohn 1853], p.143
| 3033 | Induction moves from some truths to similar ones, by contraries or consequents [Diog. Laertius] |
| 3035 | Dialectic involves conversations with short questions and brief answers [Diog. Laertius] |
| 1769 | Cynics believe that when a man wishes for nothing he is like the gods [Diog. Laertius] |
| 3064 | When sceptics say that nothing is definable, or all arguments have an opposite, they are being dogmatic [Diog. Laertius] |
| 1816 | Sceptics say demonstration depends on self-demonstrating things, or indemonstrable things [Diog. Laertius] |
| 1819 | Scepticism has two dogmas: that nothing is definable, and every argument has an opposite argument [Diog. Laertius] |
| 1838 | Cyrenaic pleasure is a motion, but Epicurean pleasure is a condition [Diog. Laertius] |