We based on the assumption that application of dialectical mental acts allows think of possible relations taking in account relations existing in reality.
An educational experiment is described where the children were suggested to solve some problems that required the application of dialectical mental actions.
From his commentaries on scripture and dogma to his works of speculative theology, Abelard is first and foremost concerned to show how religious claims can be understood, and in particular how the application of dialectical methods can clarify and illuminate propositions of the faith.
2) Because the idea of the soul does not yield, by itself alone, any knowable object, the arguments about it, although they may have the appearance of being legitimate, in fact involve dialectical applications of concepts.
First of all, the Philebus is the dialogue where Plato requires that numerical precision must be observed in the application of the 'divine gift' of dialectical procedure by collection and division (16c 17a).
Argument assistants for defeasible argumentation naturally correspond to a view of the application of law as dialectical theory construction.
Hence, the "transcendental" use of the understanding (its use independently of the conditions of sensibility) is considered by Kant to be dialectical, to involve erroneous applications of concepts in order to acquire knowledge of things independently of sensibility/experience.
The distinctive features of dialectical materialism would thus seem to lie as much in its being dialectical as in its being materialist.
Sartre dosed himself with speed in order to finish "Critique of Dialectical Reason".
Where were the noble peasants, the thrumming farm machinery, the virtuoso passages of dialectical montage?
