This basic idiom is appallingly weak. There is no creative, constructive or design energy in it. Even synthesis of two opposing views is only a small sample of possibilities. It is the reliance on this absurd dialectic idiom that has so held back the development of civilisation. Amazingly, virtually no time is given in science courses to this very basis of science.
Progress is assumed to be due to information, analysis and logical deduction.
This is another absurd myth, since the analysis of information will not produce new ideas. Some years ago I designed the Six Hats method. At any one moment, all parties are thinking in parallel in the same direction. This method is now rapidly being taken up by corporations such as Du Pont, IBM, NASA, Prudential, Texas Instruments, NTT, Statoil, Shell etc. Meeting times are reduced to a quarter of what they had been.