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dialectically

dialectically

1 8.9
In a way that discusses opposite views to find the truth
  • adverb
  • /daɪəˈlɛktɪkli/
  • Formal
: dialécticamente
  • In a debate, the two scholars argued dialectically, presenting opposing views to refine their understanding.
  • dialectically opposed
  • dialectically related
  • dialectically opposed modes

Now that's a different sort of process of doubting there there's something dialectically productive.

Examples

  • The grasping dimension represents two dialectically opposed modes of acquiring knowledge.

    Academic text (1996)
  • Understood dialectically, however, these ideals present differences with their own generative potential.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Past behavior is dialectically related to future intention.

    Academic text (2015)
  • The possibility of failure seems dialectically to be written into this poem's grand ambition.

  • And I think this comes from his understanding of artist as a category, one dialectically bound to the category of laborer.

    Academic text (2014)
  • And this can be dialectically revealed and then the Stoic will quit being a Stoic.

  • Brick thereby dialectically signifies the absence of stone.

    Academic text (2015)
  • There is a reciprocity, not dialectically between little and big, but a mutual reinforcement of little by little.

  • But when the Chungli Incident took place, economic development seemed to dialectically force authoritarian rule to transform.

    Academic text (1992)
  • Diversity in Britain was not necessarily dialectically attached to physical, imperialistic oppression.

    Academic text (2016)

How Dialectical

dialectically
  • Formal
1 8.9
analytically
4 5.8

Surface Forms

dialectically positive

Morphology

dialectically = dialectical (transparent) = dialectic + al + ly

Formation from the adjective 'dialectical' by adding the productive adverbial suffix '-ly' is a straightforward, regular process.

Etymology

The word dialectically comes from Greek parts dia- ('between') and legein ('to speak'), and it is related to dialogue and dialect. Think of it as a careful conversation between opposite ideas, and that's why to argue dialectically is to examine both sides to try to reach a better answer.