Definitions for dialectics

dialectics di·a·lec·tic

Spelling: [dahy-uh-lek-tik]
IPA: /ˌdaɪ əˈlɛk tɪk/

Dialectics is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 634 anagrams from letters in dialectics (accdeiilst).

Definitions for dialectics

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.
  8. the art or practice of logical discussion as employed in investigating the truth of a theory or opinion.
  9. logical argumentation.
  10. Often, dialectics. logic or any of its branches. any formal system of reasoning or thought.
  11. Hegelian dialectic.
  12. 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.
  13. (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.
  14. the juxtaposition or interaction of conflicting ideas, forces, etc.

adjective

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

Origin of dialectics

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

Examples for dialectics

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?'

This, of course, is a playful satire on his skill in dialectics.

Later, dialectics, philosophy, and political science are to be added.

He was, says Diogenes Laertius, "the inventor of dialectics."

Why have dialectics, when there were no quarrels and no differences of opinion?

What then is this dialectics, knowledge of which must be added to mathematics?

It is no longer a question of dialectics, theories, and dreams.

His real defect is that he is inferior to Socrates in dialectics.

dialectics, therefore, is only one part of philosophy, but the most important.

Yosef, who did not love declamation, had still fallen into the dialectics of unhappiness.

To us there seems to be no residuum of this long piece of dialectics.

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