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Dialectic

Dialectic meaning

Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments. | A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction. | development by way of overcoming internal contradictions

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Only by rejecting the dialectic of nature, it was argued, could the dialectic be defined in terms of the identical subject-object of the historical process.

And, perhaps, in writing and re membering, you and me, engaged in this delicate dialectic, can become something greater than the sum of our disjointed parts.

Both Judaism and Tibetan Buddhism are famous for their commitments to debate and dialectic.

Orphaned, he attended the University of Valencia – a prestigious Medieval school that emphasized dialectic reasoning, metaphysics, debate, and diplomacy.

Sometimes, one has to look at them from a different prism – a dialectic perspective that helps to deconstruct their playbook.

This whole episode feels like a bit of a dialectic between Dave’s experiences and Ally’s, where he’s not seeking the romantic situation that he ends up in, and she’s actively seeking one and it goes wrong.

And so then if we take it off the syllabus, we seed that ground, we surrender the debate, we leave the dialectic.

I’m not sure love and justice are always meant to be held as a dichotomy or even a dialectic.

Kiev is, in this sense, fighting on two fronts, and the net-sum of Ukrainian decision-making must be seen through this dialectic of having to pursue optimal military policies while keeping Western audiences committed and engaged over the long haul.

He trusted in a dialectic that eventually would destroy all class divisions.

The dialectic was a non-sequitur because earlier press releases on the efficiency of CRISPR read like a high school newspaper writing about the success of its stageplay being a success because it was over, yet was a total train wreck of a production.

He does not differentiate between abstract and concrete labor, and omits the dialectic between capitalist property relations and estranged labor as precondition result of each other, as he conceives private property only as the result of estranged labor.

People just had to understand that Brexit was a simple dialectic.

According to Hegel, "dialectic" is the method by which human history unfolds; that is to say, history progresses as a dialectical process.

Aristotle said that it was the pre-Socratic philosopher Zeno of Elea who invented dialectic, of which the dialogues of Plato are the examples of the Socratic dialectical method.

As noted below, McLuhan became one of the most widely publicized thinkers in the 20th century, so it is important to note his scholarly roots in the study of the history of rhetoric and dialectic.

As with the dialectic, Marx began with a Hegelian notion of alienation but developed a more materialist conception.

Augustine believed that dialogue/dialectic/discussion is the best means for learning, and this method should serve as a model for learning encounters between teachers and students.

Biographers suggest that it was this dialectic which defined him, forged his character and inspired his search for meaning and truth.

Boethius (480?-524), in his brief Overview of the Structure of Rhetoric, continues Aristotle's taxonomy by placing rhetoric in subordination to philosophical argument or dialectic.