Dialectical (Adjective)
Meaning
Of or relating to or employing dialectic; "the dialectical method".
Classification
Relational adjectives (pertainyms).
Examples
- The professor encouraged her students to think dialectically about the contradictions in the text to gain a deeper understanding of the author's argument.
- Hegel's dialectical approach to philosophy involved synthesizing opposing viewpoints to create a higher level of understanding.
- The teacher used dialectical exercises to help her students see both sides of a complex issue and come to their own conclusions.
- In dialectical logic, contradictory statements are used to challenge and ultimately transform existing knowledge and assumptions.
- Marx's dialectical theory of history proposed that social and economic progress is the result of a constant struggle between opposing forces.