dialectics
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- noun
- /daɪəˈlɛktɪks/
- Formal
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dialéctica
- In philosophy, dialectics is often used to explore the conflict between opposing ideas to understand development.
- dialectics of history
- cultural dialectics
- social dialectics
OK Dialectics are common in healthcare where two opposing ideas can both be true.
- OK Dialectics are common in healthcare where two opposing ideas can both be true.
- Then I realised later when I did more internal dialectics that probably while I'm in a human body, I'm never going to be able to trust the ego.
- Something similar occurred in the earlier dialectics in this section, right?
- We've seen that many times through the previous dialectics as well, haven't we?
Examples
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History is to be conceived as a complex network of dialectics of subjects, communities, and cultures.
Academic text (2006) -
As noted above, these notions are conceived as dialectics of transcendence and limitation.
Academic text (2006) -
The history of revolution is based on the dialectics of ebb and flow.
Blog text (19) -
The stories of Six Problems nevertheless cohere to produce the dialectics of sense required by the detective genre.
Academic text (1994) -
First, he is emphasizing dialectics in his criticism of Feuerbach.
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The speaker is torn between the dialectics of power and powerlessness, racial difference, and human universality.
Fiction book (1995) -
Insofar as these dialectics are distorted, history is a compound of the intelligible and the surd.
Academic text (2006) -
I suggest, therefore, that Lonergan's emerging alternative to classicist spirituality addressed, in effect, three conscious dialectics.
Academic text (2001) -
The study of history reveals the dialectics of social movements and their impact on change over time.
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Using dialectics allows us to analyze how contradictions in society can lead to progress and transformation.
Synonyms
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A way of discussing opposite ideas to reach a new understanding
A way of arguing that uses opposite ideas to reach a new view
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dialectics comes from the Greek word dialektos meaning 'conversation' or 'discussion', and it shares its root with the everyday word dialogue. That's why dialectics is a way of thinking that uses a back-and-forth of opposite ideas or arguments to explain how things change.