The dialectical method. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
One of the structures of thought is called dialectical thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Michel Bauwens - A vision-logic for the p2p age?] Reference
A psychosocial treatment termed dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) has been developed specifically to treat BPD. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Seixon can’t debate without another person bringing a talking point, because his main dialectical trick is “No, you don’t”. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 7, 2006] Reference
"The movie has been described as dialectical, but two parts do not a dialectic make: something meaningful has to happen between those parts.". From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Elsewhere] Reference
In the twentieth century, so-called dialectical theol - ogy relying on Luther and Kierkegaard returned to the dialectical interpretation of eschatology in the New. From Wordnik.com. [ESCHATOLOGY] Reference
He was a contrarian, a kind of dialectical temperament. From Wordnik.com. [Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams] Reference
So we have to keep a kind of dialectical understanding of commodification. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornel West Reader] Reference
In an influential article, Coussin has argued for a "dialectical" interpretation of Academic skepticism. From Wordnik.com. [Ancient Skepticism] Reference
I'm not sure that the sentimental/political dichotomy is "dialectical" so much as it's inconsistency, though. From Wordnik.com. [Milk] Reference
Being and Nothingness, his second, "dialectical" ethics builds on the philosophy of history developed in the Critique of dialectical Reason. From Wordnik.com. [Jean-Paul Sartre] Reference
Of course, this kind of dialectical argument does require a clear break or obvious opposition between Picasso's collage and his neoclassicism. From Wordnik.com. ['The Picasso Papers': An Exchange] Reference
Such an approach is called dialectical reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [A Disservice To Atheism] Reference
"dialectical" resolution to its central question of how we can grasp the wealth of capitalist societies. From Wordnik.com. [Roughtheory.org] Reference
Particularly in the third, "dialectical" section - in the anthropomorphic language used to characterise commodities and their relations. From Wordnik.com. [Roughtheory.org] Reference
Poetry is never purely descriptive or dialectical. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
To identify the two is a mere dialectical subterfuge. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
Our conversations (it is no fault of mine) are always dialectical. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, April 25, 1917] Reference
But the power of dialectical materialism ain't going to do that job. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: From Communism To Al Qaeda] Reference
This is a pretty good specimen of one of Paine's dialectical methods. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859] Reference
It was a conceptualized response to a dialectical process within myself. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
So dialectical dialogue has gradually become our predominant teaching method. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
It is a dialectical concept: either there are two superpowers, or there is none. From Wordnik.com. [The Lonely Superpower] Reference
Nowhere have I seen a clear dialectical sequence laid out of the possible options. From Wordnik.com. [The U.S.' Iran Problem] Reference
Music may be deep, mystic, even metaphysical in its meaning, but it cannot be dialectical. From Wordnik.com. [The Principles of Aesthetics] Reference
Had he fallen in with dialectical analysis in the garb of poetry, it must have killed him!. From Wordnik.com. [Cobwebs of Thought] Reference
This oscillating, dialectical process continues throughout reflection on the multiple realities. From Wordnik.com. [Humanistic Nursing] Reference
Rihanna and Chris Brown are probably not creating a dialectical mix tape, writ large for us all to hear. From Wordnik.com. [Are We Eavesdropping On Rihanna And Chris Brown?] Reference
The present is no hour for that disingenuous, dialectical bravura which might excusably relieve a domestic altercation. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
So maybe we should be thankful that Carlos is bogged down in dialectical materialism and theories of Islamic revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowland: From Communism To Al Qaeda] Reference
It is surprising to note the dialectical similarity between Súlu and the variety of Bisáya spoken in the Agúsan Valley. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
In him I found dialectical sharpness such as I had hitherto known only in Kirk, but coupled with youth and whim and poetry. From Wordnik.com. [Surprised by Joy]
Whether he missed the occupation of looking after the work-people and guarding the line, or whether he only understood dialectical. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873] Reference
Lennox very shortly, and set himself to conciliate the Puritans by professing to have been converted from Popery by James's dialectical skill. From Wordnik.com. [England under the Tudors] Reference
But a bemused John Paul II, no stranger to materialism, dialectical and otherwise, might have responded: There you go again -- that word "consciousness.". From Wordnik.com. [THE POPE AND THE SURGEON] Reference
What I say is, he that is emancipated never indulges in that intellectual gladiatorship which is implied by a dialectical disputation for the sake of victory. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Thou hast been taken to the heart of Scottish poets, as though there were not even a dialectical shadow of difference distinguishing thine and their languages. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
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