Dialectic is an inter-personal experience: a rigorous dialogical process where parties to an argument exchange views in pursuit of the common objective of approximating the truth. Perhaps the most common case where the dialectician wins and benefits from dialectic is when they discover a proposition, theory, method, that approximates the truth in a manner that is superior to what was possible prior to such a discovery. The dialectician is, just like Diogenis of Sinope (aka “the Cynic”), a citizen of the cosmos (“cosmou polites” gives us “cosmopolite” and its derivatives) in the sense that their point of reference and source of guidance is nature, the approximation of the truth, the world as-is or as best we can interpret it, though not as human convention or whimsy wants it to be.