Simply because among the subtle dialecticianswho preceded him the principle had been challenged.
To verify the meaning of abstract proverbs in this way is to travel over the road by which the Greek dialecticians were led to feel the importance of definition.
Great scholars and acute dialecticians had been tried and found wanting.
Dialecticians and scholars were therefore, henceforth, as much valued in the Church as self-flagellating friars and miracle-performing saints.
From the pains which Aristotle takes (in the 'De Interpretatione' and elsewhere) to explain and vindicate his own doctrine about the Potential and the Actual, we may see that it was a theme much debated among the dialecticians of the day.
As musicians are an honour to society, so are dialecticians that have a single heart and an exquisite patience.
That the ideal of dialectic is to apply to existence and thereby to coincide with physics is in a sense no less true, although dialecticians may be little inclined to confess it.
That there were dialecticians of every degree of merit, in the time of Aristotle, cannot be doubted; some clever and ready, others stupid and destitute of invention.
The dialecticians dwelt exclusively in the region of these received opinions; and the purpose of their debates was to prove inconsistency, or to repel the proof of inconsistency, between one opinion and another.
He disapproved of the poets as promulgators of mischievous fables and prejudices, the rhetoricians as furnishing weapons for the misleading career of political ambition, the dialecticians as wasting their time in useless puzzles.
To impugn, forcibly and even unanswerably, a theory at once so sweeping and so little fortified by positive reasons, was what many dialecticians of the age could do.
Aristotle does not claim for either Dialecticians or Sophists the power of cross-examining scientifically.
But this reason, by some deemed conclusive, is nevertheless exceedingly futile; it labors under the sophism called by dialecticians begging of the question, for it supposes what was to be proved.
Were not all the precepts which the dialecticians now deliver and teach, originally discovered and established by them?
Let the dialecticians then, that is to say, Antiochus and the Stoics, contend with him, for he upsets the whole science of dialectics.
Therefore, both dialecticiansand natural philosophers use those words which are not common in the ordinary conversation of the Greeks; and geometricians, musicians, and grammarians, all speak after a peculiar fashion of their own.
We cannot be surprised that it puzzled the dialecticians of the Platonic Aristotelian age, who fastened by preference on points of metaphysical difficulty.
Proklus advises that those who wish to become dialecticians should begin with the study of the Kratylus (Schol.
This insurrection of human intelligence gave great alarm to the orthodox leaders of the Church; and to suppress it the Church raised up conservative dialecticiansas acute and able as those who strove for emancipation.
Anselm did not carry out metaphysical reasonings to such lengths as did the Schoolmen who succeeded him,--those dialecticians who lived in universities in the thirteenth century.
And from those conclusions which I have mentioned above, the former is called by the dialecticians the fourth mood, and the latter the fifth.
The Dialecticians found in their system the widest range for feminine cleverness of speech, and defended hetairism with the greatest subtlety and the most ingenious sophism.
The first female Dialecticians were the five daughters of Diodorus, an eminent disciple of Euclides, and they conferred much honor on the school.
In Richard there appears the first indications of a misunderstanding with the dialecticians which, among the late Victorines, and especially in the case of Walter of St. Victor, took the form of vehement hostility.
Aristotle observes, with great truth, that all men are dialecticians and testers of reasoning, up to a certain point: he might have added that they are all Sophists also, up to a certain point.
Fortunately for both, the battle royal of the dialecticians did not take place.
His nationalism had approached their programs of national liberation, but the precise verbal formulation had not been adopted until he came in contact with the Marxian dialecticians of the Third International.
Political dialecticians in China split Marxian hairs as passionately and sincerely as though they were in nineteenth-century Germany.
The Sophists, on the other hand, did not seek their impulse in simple universality as fixed and as enduring; and similarly we shall find in the Sceptics, dialecticians who maintain that the subjective mind rests within itself.
But this was only partly true—in that the Eleatic dialecticians maintained Being as the one existence in relation to which nothing particular is a truth, and the Megarics considered Being as the Good.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dialecticians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
