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a logician skilled in dialectic

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For that matter, the idea of 'a pastoral dialectician (bucolicum dialecticum), namely disputing about fields and cows', was for Temple theoretically unacceptable beyond its value as a specific example.
In his introduction, Loske (2015) made two remarks that sparked my interest: he uttered the suspicious assertion that Jakob and Edenhofer (2014) position themselves as dialecticians synthesizing the seemingly irreconcilable on a higher level, and he questioned this fixation on the middle ground by quoting Friedrich von Logau, a poet of the 17th century.
Dialecticians argue that space, in the sense of territory, is not just something existing outside and prior to society, but something produced by society (Sayer 1985).
Mistakes such as "writnigs " (X) or a missing full stop (XI) are easy to read over, but sentences like "Regarding the Roman or Latin language, why should one spend many words to the question whether that language which has been treated by so many grammarians and dialecticians, both in the past and in our present time, can be understood by method?" (77) may unfortunately hinder or confuse the reader.
Marxists from the nineteenth century onward disagreed as to how to unite the two and split into those materialists who claimed that dialectics was a Hegelian mystification which was to be analyzed away in favor of a consistent materialism, and those dialecticians who emphasized dialectics, claiming that without it materialism sunk into a vulgar mechanism, unable to account for knowledge, man's activity, or the supposed contradictions found in nature.
Any doubtful statement was soon looked up by these keen dialecticians, and the offender brought severely to book.
Materialist dialecticians go beyond 'process, change and transformation' to ponder the manner in which they operate: is the movement 'cyclical' or 'spiral' (Marx, 1976: 727, 780; 1968: 524); since most change is quantitative, not qualitative, need motion always be dialectical, or can it be mechanical within a dialectical totality?
He also awards the name of 'dialecticians' to experts in these methods, saying that when he finds such an expert, he follows behind in that person's footsteps 'as if after a god' (266b6-c1).
Valla attacks the pride of knowledge of dialecticians, Disputation on Dialects (1439) (4)--from the standpoint of rhetoric and probable knowledge--are too well known to be rehashed here.
This is how War and Peace makes historians allegorists, turns specialists in global studies into dialecticians, and entices literary critics to become historians.
Second, the dialecticians (jadli), who habitually believe that the best way to develop one's understanding of the Qur'anic text is to follow a dialectical method in which one enters into the process of argumentation as a result of which all such claims would be eliminated for which one does not find any justification.
Benjamin Robertson's "Thinking Trivially About Radical Orthodoxy" contrasts McLuhan's historic account of the conflicts between "grammarians" and "dialecticians" with the modern review of intellectual history and call for a return to the Church Fathers by the Radical Orthodoxy movement.
How could such paradox-loving dialecticians not support Aloni, who opposes "all forms of boycott against arts," but also, at the same time, is among the most vocal supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement?
(8) The power of the negative refers to Hegel's belief that there is always a tension between any present state of affairs and what it is becoming, (9) a thesis that many dialecticians from Heraclitus to Kaku have affirmed.
The other aim of the dialogue is to make its participants better dialecticians both through practicing the method and by diagnosing problems when the results go awry.