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In the 20th century, the paradigmatic atti-tudes of the classical type of culture and sci-ence were criticized by postmodern philoso-phy and characterized as onto-theo-teleo-phallo-phono-logical centrism. The article ex-amines the connection between classical logic and the idea of power. Aristotelian logic de-fines those laws and rules of thought and speech that ensure the dominance and power of true knowledge. This logic corresponds to the genus-species ontology and the doctrine of essence. In it, the unity of variety bases on the subordination of any part to the whole. Only one opinion is true, whereas all the oth-ers are false. The article draws attention to the fact that even in ancient times two types of power were distinguished – the power of force and the power of competence. There-fore, along with the logic of domination of power, it makes sense to consider the logic of power as authority. Such logic works in those areas of human life where people are not dealing with a single truth, but with different reasoned opinions. These are areas where dif-ferent values collide and where different in-terests cannot be reduced to one. We are talking about areas of communication where there are exchanges of services that ensure the achievement of the interests of each par-ty. In order to carry out this exchange, people enter into power relations due to the authori-ty of one side and the desire of the other side to acquire the competence of power. The log-ic of authority must be radically different from the logic of force. The article attempts to de-scribe some aspects of the logic of communi-cation and dialogue. It is shown that, firstly, the unity is created by agents of communica-tion, and, secondly, unity is ensured by the mutual reasonable of opposing claims.