The concept of controversy between Plato and Aristotle

Abstract

In this study, we tried to shed light on the concept of dialectic for each of (Plato and Aristotle), as the concept of dialectic is one of the important and effective concepts in the philosophical and epistemological field, as light was shed on it at the beginning of systematic philosophical thinking since its inception with (Zenon El-Eley) up to ( Aristotle). The concept of dialectic witnessed a great abuse when the sophists used it as a means to convince people in artificial ways that are in line with their whims and material benefits. They were called claimants of wisdom. For knowledge and access to the facts of things through the classification and division of concepts