dialectics (dialektiks)

see- ics.] Same as dialectic, 2. dialectologer (di"a-lek-tol'ō-jėr), n. [ The good custom has been established of giving them [popular tales) in the vernacular of the narrators. And in this way the compilers themselves have been forced to become dialectologers . Quoted by J. A. H. Murray, in 8th Ann. Add. to [Philol. Soc. dialectological (di-a-lek-to-lojʻi-kal), a. Of or pertaining to dialectology: as, a dialectological introduction. of speech; manner of speaking. O sacred Dialect ! in thee the names Of Men, Towns, Countries register their fames In brief abridgements. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., Babylon. If the conferring of a kindne did not bind the person upon whom it was conferred to the returns of gratitude, why, in the universal dialect of the world, are kindne es still called obligations? South . His style is a dialect between the familiarity of talking and writing, and his letter such as you cannot distinguish whether print or manuscript. Steele, Tatler, No. 178. 2. One of a number of related modes of speech, regarded as descended from a common original; a language viewed in its relation to other languages of the same kindred; the idiom of a district or cla , differing from that of other districts or cla es. Thus, the Scotch is a dialect of English English is a dialect of the Germanic or Teutonic group; Germanic speech is an Aryan or Indo-European dialect. Of the various dialects of Greek - Attic, Ionic, Doric, Æolic, and so on-the Attic finally became the common dialect of all cultivated Greeks. Every literary language is originally one of a body of related dialects, to which favoring circumstances have given vogue and general acceptance. The Dane was converted; he sank into the general ma of English men; his tongue became simply one of the local dialects of English. E. A. Freeman , Amer. Lects., p. 152. 3. The idiom of a locality or cla , as distinguished from the generally accepted literary language, or speech of educated people.-4. Dialectic; logic. Logique, otherwise caalled dialect (for the i are bot he one) is an art to trie the corne from the chaffe, the trueth from every falshod. Sir T. Wilson , Rule of Reason (1553). Æolic dialect, Attic dialect, common dialect, creole dialect, etc. See the adjectives. Doric dialect. See Doric , n. - Hellenic dialect. See common dialect , : became the name of that branch of the trivium of the Roman schools which we call logic, and retained that meaning throughout the middle ages. Hence, in all the earlier English literature, it is the synonym of logic, differing from that word only by a more distinct suggestion of the idea of disputation. Modern logicians have frequently restricted it to the doctrines of the Topics and Sophistical Elenchi, or to the former alone. It has also been used as a synonym of syllogistic. Kant named the constructive part of his Transcendental Logic transcendental analytic, and the destructive part transcendental dialectic. For the sake of this phrase, he makes dialectic, in general, the theory of fallacies. According to Hegel, each concept in the development of thought by a primitive nece ity develops its own diametrical opposite, and to this reaction of thought against itself, regarded not as final, but as subject to a subsequent reconcilement in a higher order of thought, he gave the name of dialectic. inquired and handled the true limits and use of reason in There hath not been, to my understanding, sufficiently spiritual things, as a kind of divine dialectic. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 364. We termed Dialectic in general a logic of appearance. This does not signify a doctrine of probability; for probability is truth, only cognized upon insufficient grounds, and though the information it gives us is imperfect, it is not therefore deceitful. Kant , tr. by Meikle john. St. Paul, though bred in the dialectic of the Greek schools, came late by his conversion to the new faith, and remained a Jew to the last. Alcott , Table-Talk, p. 99. It remains true that the value of the Dialectic which asks and gives such an account of ideal good as at once justifies and limits obedience to practical authorities is conditional upon its finding in the individual a well-formed habitual morality. T. H. Green, Prolegomena to Ethics, § 328. 2. Skill in disputation. Also dialectics . dialectical (di-a-lek'ti-kal), a. 1. Same as dia lectic , 1. A dialectical syllogism is nothing more than a syllogism generating opinion, or any other a ent besides science. Burgersdicius , tr, by a Gentleman, lectology + -ist.] Ä dialectologer. The dialectologist must be fastidious indeed who would not be satisfied with this extraordinary ma of material, where he can only study both form and phonetics for almost every shading of every dialect belonging to the group. Amer . Jour. Philol ., IV. 490.