See Also: dialectical(dictionary)
dialectical materialism(encyclopedia)

dialectical (iou)



dialectical noun & adjective. E16.
[formed as DIALECTIC adjective + -ICAL.]
A. noun. = DIALECTIC noun 1. Only in E16.
b. adjective.
I.
= DIALECTIC adjective 1. M16.
J. C. Ransom His understanding is intuitive rather than dialectical.
Of or pertaining to dialectic as a philosophy. L18.
dialectical materialism the Marxist theory of political and historical events as due to the conflict of social forces caused by man's material needs and interpretable as a series of contradictions and their solutions.
II.
= DIALECTAL. M18.
dialectically adverb (a) by means of dialectic, logically; (b) as regards dialect, dialectally: L16.