dialectical
dahy uh lek ti kuhl
- a of or relating to or employing dialectic
the dialectical method
- The methods fostered at this school have a tendency to exalt dialectical skill, to focus the mind on narrow issues, and to obscure the fact that no reasoning, however logical, can rise above the premises on which it is based.
- Lysenko was a peasant-born agronomist and Marxist ideologue who rejected Mendel's ideas because they contradicted the doctrine of dialectical materialism.
- What is dialectical materialism, the method of argument so dear to the Communist heart? The anti-Communist magazine Tarantel in Berlin gave the answer in the form of an anecdote.