Definitions for dialectic

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dialectic di·a·lec·tic

Spelling: [dahy-uh-lek-tik]

IPA: /ˌdaɪ əˈlɛk tɪk/

Dialectic is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 313 anagrams from letters in dialectic (accdeiilt).

Definitions for dialectic

noun

1. the art or practice of logical discussion as employed in investigating the truth of a theory or opinion.
2. logical argumentation.
3. Often, dialectics. logic or any of its branches. any formal system of reasoning or thought.
4. Hegelian dialectic.
5. dialectics, (often used with a singular verb) the arguments or bases of dialectical materialism, including the elevation of matter over mind and a constantly changing reality with a material basis.
6. (in Kantian epistemology) a fallacious metaphysical system arising from the attribution of objective reality to the perceptions by the mind of external objects. Compare transcendental dialectic.
7. the juxtaposition or interaction of conflicting ideas, forces, etc.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or of the nature of logical argumentation.
2. dialectal.

Origin of dialectic

1350-1400; Middle English (Anglo-French) Latin dialectica Greek dialektikḗ (téchnē) argumentative (art), feminine of dialektikós. See dialect, -

Examples for dialectic

Islam is 1,400 years old; fascism entered the dialectic only with Benito Mussolini.

The dialogues of Plato are themselves examples of the nature and method of dialectic.

He had five-year plans and seven-year plans by the bushel-full, and he never lost faith in the dialectic.

But after this he has no more to say; the answers which he makes are only elicited from him by the dialectic of Socrates.

The historian Arnold Toynbee famously theorized that history proceeds by a special type of dialectic: challenge and response.

Viewed subjectively, it is the process or science of dialectic.

This matter is, in the Indian dialectic of beauty, nonnegotiable.

They are the yin and the yang of the whole film and they dance the dialectic to perfection.

I was too soon diverted from the abstractions of dialectic to geometry.

What, then, is the nature of dialectic, and what are the paths which lead thither?'