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Type Words
Synonyms dialectical


the dialectical method.
Type Words
Type of contradiction
Derivation dialectical, dialectician


this situation created the inner dialectic of American history.
Type Words
Type of philosophy
Derivation dialectician, dialectical

Examples of dialectic

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Will and Noonan are having a dialectic today, between historian and speechwriter.
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The play flies by, engaging us in its dialectic, there's no doubt about that.
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I guess the Marxists are in control to fabricate such a diabolical dialectic.
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Is Western feminist and gender Marxism worse than dialectic Marxism-Leninism?
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Though I don't disagree with Mr Goldberg, I find this dialectic incredibly tedious.
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The resolution is depicted in Hegel's famous parable of the master-slave dialectic.
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They are also credited as a source of the dialectic method used by Socrates.
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Kalam is the Islamic philosophy of seeking theological principles through dialectic.
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The Hegelian dialectic cannot be mechanically applied for any chosen thesis.
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  • Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
  • Of or relating to or employing dialectic; "the dialectical method"
  • A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction; "this situation created the inner dialectic of American history"
  • (dialectics) a rationale for dialectical materialism based on change through the conflict of opposing forces
  • (dialectics) A systematic method of argument that attempts to resolve the contradictions in opposing views or ideas
  • (Dialectical) we make culture and in turn culture makes us. (34)
  • Dialectics is the study of logic and the use of logic to win arguments and prove theories. Disputation and debate were najor components of the medieval education and dialectics was necessary to both these disciplines.
  • (DIALECTICS) The most abstract or general scientific laws or principles governing the development of nature, society and thought. The most basic and important of these principles is the law of contradiction in things, the conception of things and processes as a unity of opposites. ...
  • (Dialectics) A philosophical term applied to methods of debate or argumentation that seek to prove or disprove the truth of something by the rules of logic or the laws of reasoning.