dialectic
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“The Ontology is based firmly in reality—there is, here, a dialectic between ground truth, tribal knowledge, and enhancements.”
From Barron's • May 4, 2026
Through an artistic probing of form, perhaps reflective of his ancestors’ Talmudic dialectic, he questioned traditional pieties and challenged an existing order.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 12, 2026
I saw the possibility of making a film that was dialectic, where words and speaking were at the center of the film.
From Salon • Sep. 6, 2024
But it’s in “The Guest Lecture,” his second novel, that the dialectic between fantasy and figures, consciousness and bodies, takes its most affecting form.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2023
Zeno put it like this: “Rhetoric is an open palm; dialectic a closed fist.”
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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