dialectician

Meanings

1. Someone skilled in dialectics: someone able to arrive at logical conclusions through reasoned argument.
2. Someone skilled in dialectical idealism: someone able to arrive at historical conclusions through consideration of contradictions.
3. Someone skilled in dialectical materialism: someone able to arrive at socio-political conclusions through consideration of class differences.

1. Someone knowledgeable about dialects.

Etymology

From French dialecticien (“one skillful in dialectic”), from Latin dialecticus (“dialectic”) + French -ien (“-ian”) from Latin -ianus (“-ian”). Equivalent to dialectic + -ian.

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