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From: bz on 29 Jul 2010 10:36 "Inertial" <relatively(a)rest.com> wrote in news:4ba07594$0$27861$c3e8da3 @news.astraweb.com: >> A telescope is "aimed" by positioning its dielectics ---------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^^ >> and reflectors so that all paths from the emitter to >> detector are the same length so they interfere constructively. > Sue seems to think that dialectics is the route to truth. She even puts them (slightly misspelled) in telescopes. :) [quote from http://www.thefreedictionary.com/dialectic] dialectic Also found in: Legal, Encyclopedia, Wikipedia, Hutchinson 0.01 sec. di�a�lec�tic (d-lktk) n. 1. The art or practice of arriving at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments. 2. a. The process especially associated with Hegel of arriving at the truth by stating a thesis, developing a contradictory antithesis, and combining and resolving them into a coherent synthesis. b. Hegel's critical method for the investigation of this process. 3. a. The Marxian process of change through the conflict of opposing forces, whereby a given contradiction is characterized by a primary and a secondary aspect, the secondary succumbing to the primary, which is then transformed into an aspect of a new contradiction. Often used in the plural with a singular or plural verb. b. The Marxian critique of this process. 4. dialectics (used with a sing. verb) A method of argument or exposition that systematically weighs contradictory facts or ideas with a view to the resolution of their real or apparent contradictions. 5. The contradiction between two conflicting forces viewed as the determining factor in their continuing interaction. or she lost her 'r'. :) -- bz please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an infinite set. |