a dictionary.com search for the word "dialectic".


dialectics, the arguments or bases of dialectical materialism, including the elevation of matter over mind and a constantly changing reality with a material basis.


dialectics are the arguments of bases of dialectical materialism? um, right.



and cos i'm doing pol science and the word "dialectic" appeared in my pol science notes, i decided to look at Hegelian dialectic, and this is what i get:

an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis), the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis). '

i dunno if i'm too stupid to understand it or if it's just that it's un-understandable.

and i spent half the night watching Paris Hilton music videos on youtube and i must admit she's pretty good at what she does. she's slightly R-rated, but i can see how people think she's hot and the next best thing discovered after Britney Spears. i used to abhor her, but i gotta admit the girl knows how to make money with what she has.