Entitled: "Vti hominem ratione docet dialectica quare merito artium apicem magnus hanc plato vocat" it". Print created by Cornelis Cort, 1565, showing a woman dressed in classical robes seated on a woven chair in a stone courtyard, conversing with an older, bearded man, also in robes. A bird is perched atop her head, another on the back of her chair. A marine creature (remora?) is winding itself around her arm. She rests her left foot on a pile of books, each of which is labeled with a name: Gorgias, Lucianus, Zenon, Aristoteles, Libanius. A frog is seated on the pile of books, another is on the ground behind the chair. Dialectic is a method of argument for resolving disagreement that has been central to European and Indian philosophy since antiquity. The word dialectic originated in ancient Greece, and was made popular by Plato in the Socratic dialogues. The dialectical method is discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject, who wish to establish the truth of the matter guided by reasoned arguments