The story
Blend of tri- + dialectics, as though the latter came from di- (“two”). The term was first proposed by Oscar Ichazo in the late 1950s and later proposed for a different meaning by Edward Soja.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
trialectics
Today it means: A level of logic. The first being Fomral logic (Aristotelian, the second being Dialectic logic (Hegelian) and the third being Trialectic logic (Ichazoan) Full definition →