dialectician
- noun
- /ˌdaɪəˈlɛkˌtɪʃən/
- Formal
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dialéctico
- The skilled dialectician presented compelling arguments that swayed many in the debate.
Examples
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It is clear that you fancy yourself a philosopher and dialectician.
Fiction book (1992) -
"Dialectical" brings to mind the dialectician par excellence, Socrates, and his august successors, Plato and Aristotle.
Academic text (2002) -
The reader is afraid to attack a skilled dialectician and prefers rather to agree than to risk himself an argument.
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And although she may have studied With an expert dialectician and grammarian I can tell That she was a born Hungarian
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In rabbinic thought, there is a clear distinction between pure dialecticians and those who make decisions regarding the rules of conduct.
Academic text (1994) -
Yet to the dialectician, Benjamin asserts, the polarity of semblance and play is of interest only if historicized.
Academic text (2004) -
For in his effort to counter the powerful arguments leveled against natural right by hedonism, the dialectician becomes a phenomenologist of the human soul, articulating both its order and its end.
Academic text (1999) -
Or, one might ask, are these theses more like the parables of Kafka, which Benjamin described so beautifully as "fairy tales for dialecticians"?
Academic text (1991) -
Those first two stages are philosophy in a qualified sense, but he counts them as philosophy in a way that he does not esteem his contemporaries, the dialecticians and sophists.
Academic text (2017) -
Fackenheim, on the contrary, saw it as impossible to be a dialectician after the Holocaust; he saw in the Holocaust a unique historical event, a "novum," an event that caused a "fissure" or "abyss" or "fracture" in history, one that precluded any notion of anabasis.
Academic text (2014)
Synonyms
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3.7
A person who speaks for or against an idea in a public discussion
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7.3
A person who studies rules of thinking and arguments
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A person who thinks and argues in a clear, logical way
A person who makes and checks step-by-step arguments to reach conclusions
A person who draws conclusions from general and specific facts
A person who studies formal rules of reasoning using signs
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Dialectician comes from dialectic, from an old Greek word meaning 'conversation' or 'dialogue', so think of the familiar word dialogue. A dialectician uses careful back-and-forth talk to test ideas and find the best answer or to win an argument, which is why it means a person skilled in logical debate.