dialectical
pronunciation
How to pronounce dialectical in British English:
UK [ˌdaɪə'lektɪkl]
How to pronounce dialectical in American English:
US [ˌdaɪə'lektɪkl]
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- Adjective:
- of or relating to logical disputation
- of or relating to or employing dialectic
Word Origin
- dialectical (adj.)
- "argumentative," 1540s; see dialectic + -al (1).
Example
- 1. This method is widely known as historical materialism or dialectical materialism .
- 2. Barack obama , too , seems to be caught in this dialectical rut .
- 3. Marx retained the idea that the world was dialectical , and therefore constantly changing through struggle .
- 4. Mumford 's dialectical idealist conception of civilization provides him a mindset to look at technology from the perspective of not only arts and aesthetics but economy as well .
- 5. These figures of gods are the various stages of the idea , as they come forward one after another in dialectical development .