dialectical

Definition

Of or pertaining to dialectic; (in philosophy) logically reasoned through the exchange of opposing ideas.

Etymology

From Latin dialecticus + -al. By surface analysis, dialectic + -al or dialect + -ical.

Example Sentences

• "Sure, maybe. We know — have long known — that romanticism and fatalism are dialectical lovers."
• "For I, and no doubt You, have long obſerved, that thoſe Dialectical ſubtleties, that the Schoolmen too often employ about Phyſiological Myſteries, are vvont much more to declare the vvit of him that uſes them, then increaſe the knovvledge or remove the doubts of ſober lovers of truth."

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