dialectics
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Thus, dialectics make use of logic and reason, while debates often use rhetorical ploys or appeal to the emotions.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
The dialectics of that change of mood are instructive.
From Salon • Feb. 17, 2020
In that moment, Cardi invoked one of the oldest dialectics in black music.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2018
His academic background was unusual: his Ph.D. was in German literature and German intellectual history, and his writing reflected that emphasis; his study of Nuyorican sociology, for example, employed Hegelian dialectics and Marxist class analysis.
From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2014
Aristotle made a distinction between rhetoric and dialectics.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
