In the structure of Kant's system, dialectic occupies an important and clearly delineated position. Kant says that it persists in the three Critiques, and has a place in the context of each one of them. He did not, however, deal with the nature of dialectic in a precise fashion. This is due, at least to some extent, to the inadequacy of the formal and methodological tools which Kant had at his disposal, At times, a clear discrepancy between the tools and the complexity of the problem is apparent, as will be shown in what follows. To open our discussion, we may offer a preliminary description of dialectic, as a kind of a coordinate in terms of which our discussion will proceed. It will be broader in content than that assumed by Kant himself. This methodological device must be employed in order to enable us to proceed in the attempted analysis of the view or views Kant actually held.