Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who specializes in the study of dialects.
- noun One who practices or is skilled in dialectic.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One skilled in dialectic; a logician; a master of the art of discussion and disputation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One versed in
dialectics .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a logician skilled in dialectic
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Examples
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And him who knows how to ask and answer you would call a dialectician?
The CRATYLUS Plato 1975
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It is a work not of chance, but of art; the dialectician is the artificer of words, and the legislator gives authority to them.
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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He is the poet or maker of words, as in civilised ages the dialectician is the definer or distinguisher of them.
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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SOCRATES: And him who knows how to ask and answer you would call a dialectician?
Cratylus 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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In dialectic it is different: a man is a 'sophist' because he has a certain kind of moral purpose, a 'dialectician' in respect, not of his moral purpose, but of his faculty.
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Any competent dialectician knows that a thing is best understood in times of crisis.
Ben S. Cohen: "The Second Time as Farce": Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper Ben S. Cohen 2010
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Any competent dialectician knows that a thing is best understood in times of crisis.
Ben S. Cohen: "The Second Time as Farce": Lebanon's Al Akhbar newspaper Ben S. Cohen 2010
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Even a dialectician, like me, expects the pencil to remain a pencil, at least long enough to write with it.
A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2007
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(That dialect is North Midlands or Lower North, depending on which dialectician you ask.)
October 17th, 2007 2007
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To synthesize the methodologies of Zeno and Socrates may have seemed to Diodorus the ideal way to be a dialectician, and to achieve the human good.
Diodorus Cronus Sedley, David 2009
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