dialectically
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- adverb
- /daɪəˈlɛktɪkli/
- Formal
- In a debate, the two scholars argued dialectically, presenting opposing views to refine their understanding.
- dialectically opposed
- dialectically related
- dialectically opposed modes
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Examples
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The grasping dimension represents two dialectically opposed modes of acquiring knowledge.
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Understood dialectically, however, these ideals present differences with their own generative potential.
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Past behavior is dialectically related to future intention.
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The possibility of failure seems dialectically to be written into this poem's grand ambition.
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And I think this comes from his understanding of artist as a category, one dialectically bound to the category of laborer.
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And this can be dialectically revealed and then the Stoic will quit being a Stoic.
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Brick thereby dialectically signifies the absence of stone.
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There is a reciprocity, not dialectically between little and big, but a mutual reinforcement of little by little.
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But when the Chungli Incident took place, economic development seemed to dialectically force authoritarian rule to transform.
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Diversity in Britain was not necessarily dialectically attached to physical, imperialistic oppression.
Academic text (2016)
How Dialectical
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Surface Forms
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.