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[[Dialectic]] is a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned arguments. It has been the object of study since ancient times, but only recently has it been the subject of attempts at formalisation.
==Illogical thinking and irrational processes==
Illogicality in terms of thinking processes are, as defined by researchers such as [[Aaron T. Beck]], cognitive distortions that cause abnormal functioning. The state of [[depression]] often feeds off of illogical thinking and results in victims being mired in self-defeating conclusions. Patients seeking psychological help may suffer from problems of [[overgeneralization]], becoming mired in general, negative conclusions on the basis of essentially insignificant life events. [[Cognitive behavior therapy]] can assist individuals in recognizing their own habits of faulty logic and slanted interpretations of past experiences.<ref>{{citebook|page=|Abnormal Psychology|pages=67-68|first=Ronald J.|last=Comer|publisher=Macmillan|date=2010|ISBN=9781429216319}}</ref>
In the socio-political context, the ability to amalgamate disparate, conflicting interests and passions into an illogical synthesis has been labeled as a kind of strength, albeit one with concurrent weaknesses, by literary publications such as ''[[Blackwood's Magazine]]''.
{{quote|It is difficult not to connect together these two very characteristic ideas of illogicalness and permanence. Not that illogicalness is itself a virtue, but the illogicalness of which we speak is not simply bad reasoning. It means here only that more than one principle is found to assert itself in... social work. But these principles are fused into a higher unity. The illogicalness is not the cause of the permanence, but rather both are joint products of a common cause— respect, namely, for the living forces which exist in human nature<ref>Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 104. 1868.</ref>.}}
==See also==
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