Definition of Dialectical

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or employing dialectic. "The dialectical method"

Exact synonyms: Dialectic
Partainyms: Dialectic, Dialectic
Derivative terms: Dialectic, Dialectic, Dialectic

Definition of Dialectical

1. Adjective. of, or pertaining to dialectic; logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas. ¹

2. Adjective. (rare) of, or characteristic of a dialect; dialectal ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dialectical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dialectical

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dialectical (current term)
dialectical materialism
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dialed

Literary usage of Dialectical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"On the whole, the interpretation which best suits all the passages is that extraneous discourses mean any extra-scientific dialectical discussions, ..."

2. A History of Philosophy by Frank Thilly (1914)
"And so the dialectical process, which seeks to follow the evolution of reality, ... The dialectical movement is the logical self-unfolding of thought. ..."

3. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"Detection and Explanation of the dialectical Illusion in all ... Now what is the cause, in these transcendental arguments, of the dialectical, but natural, ..."

4. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1855)
"The same causes tended to promote an abstract, dialectical method of expounding the ... This dialectical tendency, which seizing upon the results of the ..."

5. A Study in Moral Problems by Bertram Mitchell Laing (1922)
"The view of morality that underlies this, and that follows{ from this, is opposed to all theories of a dialectical type. Many of the moral paradoxes ..."

6. A Study of Ethical Principles by James Seth (1905)
"(b) From the standpoint of dialectical evolution. — But the charge of anthropomorphism comes from the Transcendentalists as well as from the Naturalists, ..."

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