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  • noun Dialectal speech or influence; the characteristics or nature of dialect; a dialectal word or expression.

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Examples

  • However, the Nepalis are determined to make Nepal the country with an inclusive democracy to be redefined by incorporating the elements from both the Market Economy ideology and the Marxist dialecticism.

    Observation of Urumqi bloodshed 2009

  • In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries there was, as a protest against a sterile dialecticism, a revival of mystical systems, some orthodox -- J. Ruysbroek, Gerson, Peter d'Ailly, Denys the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • In his version of dialecticism, a 'thesis' (i.e. one viewpoint or phenomena) is fused with an

    Asian 2009

  • I term this propensity to get used to things given the right conditions, psychological dialecticism - which I believe unites the Marxians and Hegelians.

    Asian 2009

  • Whilst Marx disputed with Hegel's dialecticism and counterposed it with Historical Materialism - putting it simply, that economic conditions determined consciousness, ideas, economic evolution, etc - I felt that Hegel was not wrong, but that his perspectives could be said to describe particular stages of socio-psychological development in the course of socio-economic evolution.

    Asian 2009

  • Whilst Marx disputed with Hegel's dialecticism and counterposed it with Historical Materialism - putting it simply, that economic conditions determined consciousness, ideas, economic evolution, etc - I felt that Hegel was not wrong, but that his perspectives could be said to describe particular stages of socio-psychological development in the course of socio-economic evolution.

    Asian 2009

  • I term this propensity to get used to things given the right conditions, psychological dialecticism - which I believe unites the Marxians and Hegelians.

    Asian 2009

  • In his version of dialecticism, a 'thesis' (i.e. one viewpoint or phenomena) is fused with an

    Asian 2009

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