Why is it die Dialektik?

Dialektik ends in -ik, and almost all nouns ending in -ik are feminine: in a German dictionary, 93% of them take die.

All nouns ending in -ik
Sense 1
die

Meaning

[1] Philosophy: Method of drawing conclusions: thesis antithesis ➝ synthesis

[1] Philosophie: Methode Schlüsse zu ziehen: These + Antithese ➝ Synthese

[2] Rhetoric: Art of conversation

[2] Rhetorik: Kunst der Gesprächsführung

Examples

[1] "For the first time there is the expression dialectic at Platonä"

[1] „Zum ersten Mal findet sich der Ausdruck Dialektik bei Platon.“

[2] "Here it is only important for us that the dialectics are responsible for the constitution of mathematics"

[2] „Hier ist für uns nur wichtig, daß die Dialektik für die Konstitution von Mathematik verantwortlich ist.“

Declension

1 Singular Plural
Nominativ die Dialektik —
Genitiv der Dialektik —
Dativ der Dialektik —
Akkusativ die Dialektik —

Pronunciation

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