dialectical
IPA: daɪʌɫˈɛktɪkʌɫ
adjective
- Of, or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.
- Synonym of dialectal (“of, or peculiar to a dialect”)
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Examples of "dialectical" in Sentences
- One of the structures of thought is called dialectical thinking.
- This kind of opposition I may be allowed to term dialectical; that of contradictories may be called analytical opposition.
- Seixon can’t debate without another person bringing a talking point, because his main dialectical trick is “No, you don’t”.
- To be sure, they affect an elaborate rationalism, something they call dialectical materialism, which in turn rests on a verbal agglomeration known as Marxian economics.
- Linehan diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder, an extreme inability to regulate moods, and prescribed a type of counseling called dialectical behavior therapy.
- Our opposition generates, in dialectical fashion, discursive expressions of our values and world-view that resonate among us, and, at least ideally, offer the potential of more than talk.
- The philosophy is often called dialectical materialism; dialectical because it incorporates Hegel’s idea of inherent change, and materialism because it grounds itself not in the world of ideas, but on the terrain of social and physical environment.
- I am also indebted to this article for Kaufman’s very persuasive demonstration of the ways that "constructivism exists in dialectical tension with negative capability" (371), a notion I have tried to pursue here using a somewhat different vocabulary, and for his demonstration of the ways this claim has broader critical resonances with respect to the relationship between formalist and Frankfurt school criticism. close window
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