dialectician in a sentence
Examples
- Amalric taught philosophy and theology at the University of Paris and enjoyed a great reputation as a subtle dialectician; his lectures developing the philosophy of Aristotle attracted a large circle of hearers.
- It seems proper to recall that Plato's ever-present protagonist and ideal man, Socrates, fits Plato's description of the dialectician perfectly, and never wrote a thing.
- Besides studying logical puzzles and paradoxes, the Dialecticians made two important logical innovations, by re-examining modal logic, and by starting an important debate on the nature of conditional statements.
- Some historians think that he has to be identified with Aristotle, the dialectician, a philosopher who in 252 BC contrived and successfully executed a plot to kill Abantidas, the tyrant of Sicyon.
- In 252 BC Abantidas was murdered by two rhetoricians, Aristotle the Dialectician and Deinias of Argos, and his father Paseas took over, only to be murdered after a short rule by another rival named Nicocles.
- He expresses his contempt for the ordinary school rhetorician, the hair-splitting dialecticians and their sense of inability to speak, since they dare not even pronounce their own name for fear of expressing themselves ambiguously.
- According to Keikavus, his host was " a great king, a man firm and clever, [ . . . ] just, courageous, eloquent dialectician, of pure faith and far-sighted ".
- The great debate of the Council of Lhasa between the two principal debators or dialecticians, Moheyan and Kamala [ + la is narrated and depicted in a specific cham dance once held annually at Kumbum Monastery in Qinghai.
- It's altogether one of the boldest _ and riskiest _ star gestures in a major Hollywood movie in years, and it's hard to imagine another actor besides that sly dialectician who would even dare to attempt it.
- Voltaire, in the prelude to his " Po�me sur le d�sastre de Lisbonne " calls Bayle " " le plus grand dialecticien qui ait jamais �crit " ", or the greatest dialectician to have ever written.