Dialectic process vs. dialogic process

In a dialectic process describing the interaction and resolution between multiple paradigms or ideologies, one putative solution establishes primacy over the others. The inherent aim of a dialectic process is to achieve this state of conceptual domination.

In a dialogic process, various approaches coexist and are comparatively existential and relativistic in their interaction. Here, each ideology can hold more salience in particular circumstances. Changes can be made within these ideologies if a strategy does not have the desired effect. Thus, these entities do not necessarily merge (or become subjugated) into bigger entities as in the dialectic process, but nonetheless modify themselves (sometimes fundamentally) over the course of mutual interaction.

These two distinctions are observed in studies of personal identity, national identity and group identity.

George Hegel (1770-1831) introduced the concept of dialectic process to explain the progression of ideas.