ABSTRACT
First published in 2000. This is Volume I of eight in the International Library of Philosophy looking at the area pf philosophy of Mind an Language. Written in 1927, Dialectic is a convenient technical name for the kind of thinking which takes place when human beings enter into dispute, or when they carry on in reflection the polemical consideration of some theory or idea. This text is an attempt to examine the circumstances and conditions of controversy in order to understand what are its inescapable limitations, its intellectual traits and values.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |77 pages
Dialectic
chapter |25 pages
The Discovery of Dialectic: Introductory
chapter |8 pages
Traits of Controversy
chapter |44 pages
Specimens of Human Discourse
part |139 pages
The Description of Dialectic
chapter |61 pages
The Empirical Description: Language
chapter |58 pages
The Logical Description
chapter |18 pages
The Metaphysical Description
part |29 pages
The Interpretation of Dialectic