Hege′lian dialectic - an interpretive method in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis), the contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis).

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Dang!

Yep, that's the legacy he wants to keep alive.