dialectician

NOUN
  1. a logician skilled in dialectic
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How To Use dialectician In A Sentence

  • He was a strong opponent of the rationalistic tendencies which had infected some dialecticians of his times, and often warned his pupils against such as extol their dialectics above the teachings of the Church and the testimony of the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • Laconically, Brecht observed that ‘war, the great dialectician, puts every organ to the test.’
  • The dialectician replaces hypotheses with secure knowledge, and his aim is to ground all science, all knowledge, on some ‘unhypothetical first principle’.
  • He was an acute dialectician and pre-eminent among his contemporaries in the range of his learning; he was a competent mathematician; he was even a poet.
  • Plato, the dialectician, condescended to allow to God the liberty of making five worlds; because, said he, there are five regular solids in geometry, the tetrahedron, the cube, the hexahedron, the dodecahedron, and the icosahedron. A Philosophical Dictionary
  • Heraclitus was a dialectician, while Zeno was a metaphysical relativist.
  • The aim of the seminar giver, he argues, is to be witty, clever, and entertaining; the performer must also be a skilled dialectician who relishes the cut and thrust of debate.
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