The History of Ideas

In the history of ideas, we see an idea as proposed and a counter idea. These two ideas then are drawn together into a higher integration. This is often explained by this idea of thesis and synthesis and synthesis. And what you have is the increasing articulation and integration of the patterns of intelligibility. For Hegel, given the argument, are also the patterns of realness, the patterns of reality. You get this incredible complexification. He calls it dialectic.