dialectic的词源

英文词源

dialectic (n.): 1580s, earlier dialatik (late 14c.), from Old French dialectique (12c.), from Latin dialectica, from Greek dialektike (techne) "(art of) philosophical discussion or discourse," fem. of dialektikos "of conversation, discourse," from dialektos "discourse, conversation" (see dialect). Originally synonymous with logic; in modern philosophy refined by Kant, then by Hegel, who made it mean "process of resolving or merging contradictions in character." Related: Dialectics.

来自dialect,交流，对话。引申为辩证的。

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词根词缀： dia-相对,之间 + -lect-诵读(言) + -ic形容词词尾 → 对言的→辩证的,辨明真理的