dialectics

• The evening assemblies in the 'Ibadat Khana' in Fathpur Sikri at once gave the shrewd Jesuits who were schooled in dialectics, an opportunity to distinguish themselves before the Emperor who himself presided over this Religious Parliament in which Christians, Jews, Mohammedans, Brahmans, Buddhists and Parsees debated with each other. —  Akbar, Emperor of India
• He was, during that time, completing his education at Salamanca, where he was instructed in Latin, dialectics, logic, metaphysics, ethics, and physics, after the supposed method and system of Aristotle. —  The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (Vol. II)
• Or, on the other hand, do we not observe that twins, born at the same time, have the most unlike characters and the most different fortunes But dialectics are an accomplishment in which the Greeks ever excelled, and the defenders of astrology found a reply to every objection. —  The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism
• He was skilled in dialectics, and his rhetorical dexterity had more than once served him and his friends in good stead. —  Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860
• Familiar from boyhood with the concrete form dialectics are apt to take when indulged in beyond space of half an hour. —  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892

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