dialectical
dialectical
Definition
dia·lec·ti·cal (-ti kəl)
adjective
- of or using dialectic
- of or characteristic of a dialect; dialectal
dialectical
Synonyms
dialectical
modif.
dialectical
Usage Examples
Modifying Another Word
- hence: Hence dialectical thought is the organ of historical awakening.
- thus: Thus dialectical materialism is seen to offer the only approach to reality which can give action a direction.
- always: A person's evolutionary journey through life is always dialectical.
- not: Emotions are not dialectical; their intensity varies but not the nature of the emotions themselves.
Modifies a noun
- materialism: Thus dialectical materialism is seen to offer the only approach to reality which can give action a direction.
- karma: By labeling the cause good or bad I produce dialectical karma.
- montage: These studies form a major influence upon his theories of dialectical montage.
- realism: Having outlined the defining tenets critical realism, it remains to compare these tenets to the defining tenet of dialectical critical realism.
- logic: A continuation of the dialectical logic, would of course, require thinking about a synthesis, or a solution to the current contradictions.
- unity: Such a method fails to conceive of the society in question as a dialectical unity.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Young Socrates: This too is clear, that it's for the sake of our becoming more dialectical about everything.
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