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How to use dialectical in a sentence

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Dialectical means of or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas. Example: “We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.”

Examples of dialectical by meaning

adjectiveOf or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.

  • We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025

More sentences with dialectical

  • The thinker imprudently dismissed the ontological premises of the argument without engaging in dialectical scrutiny, thereby undermining the epistemic integrity of the discourse.From the entry imprudently
  • The trilogical frame of the Stories was presented in nonnatural order presenting the dialectical structure of self-consciousness.2012, E.F. Kaelin, The Unhappy Consciousness, page 135. From the entry trilogical
  • The dialectical obverse of this use of opium is the fear that opium will turn humans into nonhumans or antihumans.2002, Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money, page 190. From the entry nonhuman
  • The only means of discovering alogisms in thought is concrete dialectical analysis of reality reflected in the utterance.1990, Alexander Spirkin, Fundamentals of Philosophy, page 238. From the entry alogism
  • Hamann's view, 'co—exist' with multiplicity; there are indeed a variety of meanings for a text: 'literal or grammatical, carnal or dialectical, Capernaitic or historical'.2010, Gwen Griffith Dickson, Johann Georg Hamann's Relational Metacriticism, page 106. From the entry Capernaitic
  • I use the term to designate the traditions of dialectical and self-reflective thought initiated during the historical moment of Kant and Hegel.2000, Carl Howard Freedman, Critical Theory and Science Fiction, Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page xvi. From the entry critical theory
  • Soloman's belief that love is necessarily paradoxical issues from his attempt to define it as what Sartre would call a dialectical metastability.1989, Irving Singer, The Nature of Love. From the entry metastability
  • Scientists must realize that dialectical materialism is the only way out of the trouble they have got into through ignorance of Marx and Engels.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford…. From the entry trouble
  • If this is the kind of reasoning that "dialectical logic" encourages, the chief function of that pseudodiscipline would seem to be to facilitate conceptual confusion.1974, John Somerville, Howard L. Parsons, Dialogues on the Philosophy of Marxism, page 77. From the entry pseudodiscipline
  • Furthermore, this vision invites us to thematize the sociocosmic biography of the exploited life, creatively pushing beyond the dialectical sociobiography of minjung and the innocent anthropocosmic vision.2010, Heup Young Kim, Christ and the Tao, →ISBN, page 172. From the entry sociocosmic
  • I share Simmel's dialectical “neither-nor” position (not monism, but nonism), as formulated in the regulating principle of methodological pluralism: neither idealism, nor materialism, nor elementarism, nor emergentism.2008, Frédéric Vandenberghe, A Philosophical History of German Sociology, →ISBN. From the entry nonism
  • A philosopheme is a demonstrative inference: an epichireme is a dialectical inference: a sophism is a contentious inference: an aporeme is an inference that reasons dialectically to a contradiction.2006, Aristotle, “VIII.11”, in W. D. Ross, transl., Topics. From the entry epichireme
  • Mina remains, however, a spoken dialectical variant despite a recent attempt by an American Baptist missionary organization to orthographize and grammarize via a translation of the Christian New Testament.2005, Benjamin Nicholas Lawrance, A Handbook of Eweland: The Ewe of Togo and Benin, page 228. From the entry grammarize
  • If the first phase in development thinking may be referred to as penetration, the second, as its dialectical counterpart, is indigenization: an intellectual mobilization for depenetration.1990, Helena Rytövuori-Apunen, Peace Research in Scandinavia, 1959-1986, page 246. From the entry depenetration
  • Swann remained silent, and, by this fresh act of recreancy, spoiled the brilliant dialectical contest which Mme Verdurin was rejoicing at being able to offer to Forcheville.1981, C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin (rev. by D.J. Enright), Swann’s Way by Marcel Proust, Part Two: "Swann in Love". From the entry recreancy
  • It was not the substance of any doctrine that was at issue: the official, canonical version of dialectical materialism that was later adopted was virtually indistinguishable from Deborin's.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford…. From the entry canonical
  • It is not explained how we know that the phenomenalists are wrong, rather than their opponents; dialectical materialism tells us so, and that is all there is to it.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume III: The Breakdown, Oxford…. From the entry phenomenalist

Meaning of dialectical

  1. adjective Of or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.
  2. adjective Synonym of dialectal (“of or pertaining to a dialect”).

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Questions about dialectical in a sentence

How do you use dialectical in a sentence?
Dialectical is used as an adjective. For example: “We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.”
What is a short sentence with dialectical?
“We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers.”
What does dialectical mean?
Dialectical means of or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.

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