This situation created the inner dialectic of American history. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The ancient Greeks used the term dialectic to refer to various methods of reasoning and discussion in order to discover the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Then this is the progress which you call dialectic?. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic] Reference
The Marxist-Leninists call it dialectic materialism. say one thig to mask the fact that you mean the opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » BUSH VIDEO: “We Must Always Ask Ourselves Not Only What Is Legal, But What Is Right”] Reference
That Franklin had the necessary cast of mind for this dialectic is not to be doubted. From Wordnik.com. [Free and Easy] Reference
After all, the Hegelian dialectic is one of the most important descriptions and expositions of human thought. From Wordnik.com. [Katherine Heigl Sadly Still Not Being Killed] Reference
Discourse shaping must start with knowing a hawk from a handsaw and a partner in dialectic from an ideologically driven foe. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
I'm a big believer in dialectic, and you're a tough customer, from whom we could learn a lot if the goal is actually clear cogent thought. From Wordnik.com. [Balkinization] Reference
Mechanism might be called the dialectic of the irrational. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Reason] Reference
According to Hegel the dialectic is the self-development of the Idea. From Wordnik.com. [Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy] Reference
The negotiated outcome resulting from the dialectic was the dominant interest of both parties. From Wordnik.com. [Post-Secular Conviviality] Reference
Hegel used to prove his vision was the so-called dialectic method, but here his fortune has been quite contrary. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
Which is not exactly what I'd call dialectic that would make Socrates blush with envy, but we can't have everything. From Wordnik.com. [Choke: 30th Anniversary? Say Not So!] Reference
Her dialectic is a constant wrestling with reality in a range of statement which involves her in many contradictions. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Religious Cults and Movements] Reference
This method of raising oneself to the ideas is what Plato termed dialectic -- that is to say, the art of discernment. From Wordnik.com. [Initiation into Philosophy] Reference
Modern philosophers disregard these ends and mistakenly take dialectic, which is a simple means of inquiry, for an end in itself. From Wordnik.com. [RENAISSANCE HUMANISM] Reference
There's the kind of dialectic, the kind of dialogue and debate that shows both camps. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2005] Reference
By reading the relationship between the two critical systems in question as a "dialectic,". From Wordnik.com. [Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu] Reference
Mr. Ward talks about the "dialectic" between the Port Authority and the visionary architect. From Wordnik.com. [Can His Agency Repair] Reference
Marx and Engels, on the other hand, were committed to some kind of dialectic form of explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Friedrich Albert Lange] Reference
Hegel saw Schelling as not paying enough attention to "dialectic" and the labour of the negative. From Wordnik.com. [Notes on ''The Abyss of the Past': Psychoanalysis in Schelling's Ages of the World (1815)'] Reference
Thus the word "dialectic," which is at the heart of Krauss's argument, does not cross McCully's lips. From Wordnik.com. ['The Picasso Papers': An Exchange] Reference
And I think it will set in place a kind of dialectic with the Islamic world that is very, very dangerous indeed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 1, 2007] Reference
He called this kind of dialectic the ratio disserendi, a definition that Ramus, via Agricola, rephrased as the ars bene disserendi. From Wordnik.com. [Petrus Ramus] Reference
Hence, his cryptic remark in passing about "dialectic" is neither here nor there, and thus provides no argument against development. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Examples of the 'dialectic' constitution of things. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
Roughly, his 'dialectic' picture is a fair account of a good deal of the world. From Wordnik.com. [A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy] Reference
Real notions are to be ingrained by persistent thoroughness of the "dialectic" method, as if by conscientious dyers. From Wordnik.com. [Plato and Platonism] Reference
At this point I will endeavour to explain in what way Socrates fostered this greater "dialectic" capacity among his intimates. From Wordnik.com. [The Memorabilia] Reference
Thus also the defects acquired in childhood such as dialectic defects or those established by bad habits, become indelible in the adult. From Wordnik.com. [The Montessori Method] Reference
Bourdaloue, too, with his incomparable dialectic, could have accomplished. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Socrates, an Athenian philosopher (469-399 B.C.), founder of the dialectic method. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
It was a valuable lesson in the dialectic of history, later to be applied brilliantly. From Wordnik.com. [Terrorists and Freedom Fighters] Reference
Then placed the two side by side in an eerie dialectic, with only one side being yummy. From Wordnik.com. [Jim O'Grady: Art You Can Eat -- An Edible Sculpture Contest] Reference
Plato of Athens, 429-347 B.C. He used the dialectic method invented by his master Socrates. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Those World War II veterans represent the thesis in a dialectic of modern attitudes toward warfare. From Wordnik.com. [The Weight of What-If] Reference
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