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lists The triad thesis, antithesis, synthesis is often used to
describe the thought of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel. Hegel never used the term himself, and almost
all of his biographers have been eager to discredit it. The
triad is usually described in the following way: - The thesis is
an intellectual proposition. - The antithesis is simply the
negation of the thesis, a reaction to the proposition. - The
synthesis solves the conflict between the thesis and antithesis
by reconciling their common truths, and forming a new
proposition. According to Walter Kaufmann, although the triad is
often thought to form part of an analysis of histor