Sentence examples for dialectic has from inspiring English sources

As a result, the dogmatic, not the dialectic, has its day.

That stark contrast, which the social critic Mike Davis has called the sunshine/noir dialectic, has been a wellspring of material for this city's writers.

Accordingly, in the history of the Christian church a specific, characteristic dialectic has been evidenced between periods of excessive growth and formalistic hardening of tradition that hindered and smothered the charismatic life of the church and periods of a reduction of tradition that follow new reformational movements.

As noted, the Iranian-Arab dialectic has a rich history that people can instantly and familiarly plug into and the current elite in Iran are practically a parody of an angry, tub-thumping revolutionary Shia leadership: they do half of the work of the Sunni Arab elite for them.

The dialectic hasn't ended.

The analogy to dialectic has important implications for the status of rhetoric.

Philosophy, hitherto concerned almost exclusively with logic and dialectic, had stagnated in the late 12th century.

It was a sign that his analysis of the dialectic had proved a better guide than the pessimism of the enemies of modernity.

It would be far too question-begging to explain this difference simply as a result of the former's Dialectic having to do with theoretical reason, while the latter concerns practical reason.

The upshot of his enquiries is that belief in the Trinity is rationally justifiable since as far as reason can take us we find that the doctrine makes sense at least, once the tools of dialectic have been properly employed.

Both grammar and dialectic have their part in communication, grammar by clarifying established usage and dialectic by clarifying the structure of nature (CWM 15, 34 35); they must be integrated with rhetoric in speech comprehensible to all who participate in the language community.