Full Idea
Dialectical knowledge is about conversing correctly in speeches of question and answer form.
Gist of Idea
Dialectics is mastery of question and answer form
Source
report of Stoic school (fragments/reports [c.200 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.42
A Reaction
The whole of ancient Greek philosophy seems to be aimed at speaking well.
Book Reference
'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.11
Related Idea
Idea 20782 Dialectic is a virtue which contains other virtues [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]