The name comes from a dialectic word for snail shells, which were used for the game before the horse chestnut came on the public scene in the early 19th century.
But then the basic purpose of a dialectic is not for either of the two highly antagonistic positions.
No, 'this is not Homer,' as Matthew Arnold complained, since it frequently adds phrases and whole lines to Homer and sometimes simply gets him wrong; but for Chapman, translation is a dialectic between one life, one civilisation, and another.
That is why Adorno calls for a "negative dialectic" and why he rejects the affirmative character of Hegel's dialectic (ND 143 61).
The fact that a Japanese artist unveiled this unifying language for art in Berlin, a city newly defined by its unity of former opposites, reveals Berlin Art Week recognizing its own potential as a gathering place for a new dialectic in global art.
How these particular women perform their faith in the context of daily life serves to illuminate that, indeed, the praxis of Islamic faith comprises a fluid, ongoing interrogation of ayats (verses) and suras (chapters) of the Qur'an to open a space for informed debate, dialogue, and a dialectic of engagement among members of the African American Sunni community.
This may derive from the difficulty for most scientists of adopting a dialectic view of nature (evolution is both trees and networks) and their propensity to adopt a mechanistic approach (either/or) that favours opposition (between metaphors and, as a consequence, between scientists, who favour different metaphors!).
In a complex evolving systems view, product, production system and supply chain requirements, which are used to define manufacturing strategy performance objectives, are also thought to constitute, in a dialectic fashion, decision variables for achieving these objectives.
For Ricoeur [ 39], all interpretive activity involves a dialectic between guessing and validating.
