In contemporary discussions of argument, the most influential dialectical approach is pragma-dialectics, an approach developed by Van Eemeren and Grootendorst 1992 (sometimes known as "the Amsterdam School").
Given a choice between two different types of philosophical argument, one based on analytical logic, devoted to resolving contradiction, the other on a dialectical approach, accepting of contradiction, Chinese subjects preferred the dialectical approach, while Americans favored the logical arguments.
For Landesman, the dialectical approach would have been pretty difficult -- it's not easy to find people who'll make the case for sexual slavery.
Some would claim that Glass's compositional stance, based on repetition and discrete blocks of material, is antithetical to the essentially dialectical approach of the Austro-German symphonic tradition, as exemplified in the works of Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler.
It is argued that his use of a Hegelian dialectical approach belies an essential determinism at work and that the categories he lays down as ways of understanding history are actually prescriptive, in that they present history as simply a set of stages by which communism will automatically be achieved.
We shall examine three such approaches, beginning with the dialectical approach.
The dialectical approach places argument within the broader scope of dispute and debate.
The framework used to formulate problems in a dialectical approach is contradiction.
The stress on feeling and immediacy in this second phase amounts to a rejection of Hegel's dialectical approach.
This dialectical approach has been duly criticized as "too neat" ignoring the messy edges of any historical epoch.
