Single Idea 2661

[catalogued under 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic]

Full Idea

Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument.

Clarification

'Dialectic' is the impersonal pursuit of truth

Gist of Idea

Dialectic is speech cast in the form of logical argument

Source

M. Tullius Cicero (Academica [c.45 BCE], I.viii.32)

Book Reference

Cicero: 'De Natura Deorum and Academica (XIX)', ed/tr. Rackham,H. [Harvard Loeb 1933], p.443

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