dialectic
Plato's dialogues contain many instances of dialectical argument.
a dialectical tension between order and disorder
Contradiction is after all what dialectical thinking is all about.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Debate & discussion
agent provocateur
agora
argue
argue against something
argue for something
bargainer
beard
controversial
hash
no ifs or butsidiom
no-platform
no-platforming
on the doorstep
out-debate
proposer
undialectical
undiscussed
war of words
wash (something) up
well argued

Examples of dialectical

dialectical
Underlying this motif, therefore, is a dialectical relationship between history and eternity whose interrelationship ultimately redeems time itself.
It may be a process, perhaps a dialectical process, and it may involve dialogue with others.
Rather, it enables dialectical exchanges to be readily modelled once communal knowledge is organised using the non-dialectical model.
Institutional quality evolves through an internal dialectical process, dramatically influenced by the structure of the agricultural sector.
Musical discourse might be heard in a dialectical rather than an illustrative relation to events on stage.
The industrial city provides the dialectical space of a "heterotopia,"13 where exploitation and its other confront each other.
Maintenance of personal health is dialectical: the heart-mind influences bodily well-being, while proper diet, rest and exercise improves one's mental outlook.
In applications of argumentation to model dialectical reasoning, argumentation is used specifically to model discourse and only indirectly used to structure knowledge.
A dialectical process is used for deciding which information prevails.
The resolution of conflicting representations is akin to a dialectical process.
A dialectical situation need not occur between two independent human agents in that monologues can be represented dialectically.
The novels enact the dialectical relationship between closed and open, the speculative representational systems that form the heart of both realism and the gold standard.
What is essential in all events is that the global design and the narrative trajectories establish a relationship, however dialectical or antagonistic, with the music.
Moreover, he places that struggle in a well-etched historical context and provides a dialectical view of the interaction between the dominant and subaltern cultures.
A pivotal concern throughout (and dexterously handled by most contributors), is the dialectical relationship between dramatic content and audience identity, participation and interpretation.
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