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Our opposition generates, in dialectical fashion, discursive expressions of our values and world-view that resonate among us, and, at least ideally, offer the potential of more than talk.

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This kind of opposition I may be allowed to term dialectical; that of contradictories may be called analytical opposition.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

To be sure, they affect an elaborate rationalism, something they call dialectical materialism, which in turn rests on a verbal agglomeration known as Marxian economics.

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Seixon can’t debate without another person bringing a talking point, because his main dialectical trick is “No, you don’t”.

Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 7, 2006 2006

I am also indebted to this article for Kaufman’s very persuasive demonstration of the ways that "constructivism exists in dialectical tension with negative capability" (371), a notion I have tried to pursue here using a somewhat different vocabulary, and for his demonstration of the ways this claim has broader critical resonances with respect to the relationship between formalist and Frankfurt school criticism. close window

Notes, "Darkness Audible: Negative Capability and Mark Doty’s 'Nocturne in Black and Gold'", Romanticism and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics 2003

The philosophy is often called dialectical materialism; dialectical because it incorporates Hegel’s idea of inherent change, and materialism because it grounds itself not in the world of ideas, but on the terrain of social and physical environment.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

The philosophy is often called dialectical materialism; dialectical because it incorporates Hegel’s idea of inherent change, and materialism because it grounds itself not in the world of ideas, but on the terrain of social and physical environment.

The Worldly Philosophers Robert L. Heilbroner 1999

Linehan diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder, an extreme inability to regulate moods, and prescribed a type of counseling called dialectical behavior therapy.

The Forgotten Patients 2010

Linehan diagnosed her with borderline personality disorder, an extreme inability to regulate moods, and prescribed a type of counseling called dialectical behavior therapy.

The Forgotten Patients 2010

One of the structures of thought is called dialectical thinking.

Michel Bauwens - A vision-logic for the p2p age? William Harryman 2009