dialectically

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Yes, markets work dialectically-they are always in the process of aggregating the decisions of investors and so are never in a static state from which absolutely reliable conclusions can be drawn.

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  1. Logically. Theory you may not find dialectically sustained, but you are sure to glean facts which will be useful to your own generalizations. Quarterly Rev, CXXVI. 342. The evolution of thought is the evolution of being —a maxim dialectically good but practically weak. H. Calderwood, New Princeton Rev., III. 27.
  2. In the manner of a dialect; in regard to dialect. Two coins, differing dialectically in their inscriptions, were found in the Tigris in 1818, and are now in the British Museum. Encyc. Brit., XVII. 641.

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  • "Americanism", once created, brings into existence dialectically the notion of —  Asheville Indymedia Summaries
  • These contradictions would be resolved dialectically through the progress of Absolute Spirit. —  Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Psychology and social / political constructs are dialectically related: our social constructs affect our psychology, and our psychology affects our social constructs: they feed back into each other. —  The Barefoot Bum
  • The basic urge of this form of verbal and written discourse is not to analyse facts but to set up a hypothesis and instead of testing it dialectically, find, even invent, 'facts' to fit into the hypothesis, and thus come out with a happy, comfortable, and a grossly one-sided and tyrannous structure of arguments. —  Kafila
  • This will only become a reality once the Dalit-Bahujan masses undergo a process of Cultural Revolution or, dialectically speaking, it is the very writing of this history that will inaugurate the Cultural Revolution for Dalit-Bahujan masses. —  Countercurrents.org
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