Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
dialectic en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
- /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktɪk/
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Etymology
From Old French dialectique, from Late Latin dialectica, from Ancient Greek διαλεκτική (dialektikḗ, “the art of argument through interactive questioning and answering”), from διαλεκτικός (dialektikós, “relating to dialogue”), from διαλέγομαι (dialégomai, “to participate in a dialogue”), from διά (diá, “through, across”) + λέγειν (légein, “to speak”).
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
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(countable, uncountable) A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
This situation created the inner dialectic of American history.
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(Marxism, countable, uncountable) development by way of overcoming internal contradictions
Forms
Relateds
trialectic · dialectical · dialogue · dialect · trialectics
Translations (26)
tl diyalektika (formal system of reasoning) · ko 변증법 (formal system of reasoning) · ms dialektik (formal system of reasoning) · id dialektika (formal system of reasoning) · sv dialektik (formal system of reasoning) · ru диале́ктика (formal system of reasoning) · da dialektik (formal system of reasoning) · fi dialektiikka (formal system of reasoning) · ar جدلية (formal system of reasoning) · uk діале́ктика (formal system of reasoning) · ja 弁証法 (formal system of reasoning) · pt dialética (formal system of reasoning) · el διαλεκτική (formal system of reasoning) · es dialéctica (formal system of reasoning) · it dialettica (formal system of reasoning) · fr dialectique (formal system of reasoning) · grc δῐᾰλεκτῐκή (formal system of reasoning) · hi द्वंद्वात्मक (formal system of reasoning) · cmn 辯證法 /辩证法 (formal system of reasoning) · tr diyalektik (formal system of reasoning) · nl dialectiek (formal system of reasoning) · ro dialectic (formal system of reasoning) · yue 辯證法 /辩证法 (formal system of reasoning) · ka დიალექტიკა (formal system of reasoning) · ca dialèctica (formal system of reasoning) · de Dialektik (formal system of reasoning)
dialectic en · ADJ · etymology 2
Pronunciation
- /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktɪk/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From Latin dialecticus, from Ancient Greek δῐᾰλεκτῐκός (dĭălektĭkós).
Meanings
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Dialectical (of or relating to dialectic)
Forms
Translations (14)
it dialettico (of or relating to dialectic) · id dialektis (of or relating to dialectic) · tl diyalektiko (of or relating to dialectic) · id dialektik (of or relating to dialectic) · ms dialektik (of or relating to dialectic) · es dialéctico (of or relating to dialectic) · ca dialèctic (of or relating to dialectic) · nl dialectisch (of or relating to dialectic) · fi dialektinen (of or relating to dialectic) · tr diyalektik (of or relating to dialectic) · de dialektisch (of or relating to dialectic) · fr dialectique (of or relating to dialectic) · pt dialético (of or relating to dialectic) · ro dialectic (of or relating to dialectic)
dialectic en · ADJ · etymology 3
Pronunciation
- /ˌdaɪəˈlɛktɪk/
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
From dialect + -ic.
Meanings
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Dialectal (of or relating to a dialect).
But our able Secretary, Mr. Laidlay, has referred me to another alphabet, dialectic of the Hebrew, as set forth in the interpretation of the bilingual inscription of Thongga (Journal Asiatique, Fevrier, 1843) to which be conceives the characters of this brief specimen may be considered more properly to belong.
1850 January, Henry [Whitelock] Torrens, “Some conjectures on the progress of the Bráhminical Conquerors of India”, in Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, volume XIX, number XXXVII, Calcutta: J. Thomas, Baptist Mission Press, published 1851, page 13:Is it [prodezza] a mere dialectic variation of prudenza,[…]?
1813, W[illiam] Taylor, Jun[ior] of Norwich, English Synonyms Discriminated, London: W. Pople, page 51:[…] if any one has, in common discourse, an indistinct, hesitating, dialectic, or otherwise faulty, delivery, his Natural manner certainly is not what he should adopt in public speaking; […]
1828, Richard Whately, Elements of Rhetoric. Comprising the Substance of the Article in the Encyclopædia Metropolitana: with Additions, &c., 2nd edition, Oxford: W. Baxter, for John Murray, London; and J. Parker, Oxford, page 351:[…] we have a theory sufficiently consistent with the remote philological relations traceable between Cymri and Gael, and with the close dialectic affinities between Celtic Scotland and Ireland.
1863, Daniel Wilson, Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, 2nd edition, volume II, London; Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., page 185:
Forms
Deriveds
dialectician · nondialectic · dialecticism