Dialecticians
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dialecticians · grammarians · quibblers · sophistical dialecticians · the dialecticians · those occupied with dialogue · those subtle reasoners
spoken of as
1 expressionthe dialecticians1 mention
Stromata (Greek)
and it is to be acquired by the temperate man, not for the sake of saying or doing anything toward men, as the dialecticians now do who busy themselves about sophistical things, but for being able both to say what is pleasing to God and to do what is pleasing to him, the whole according to one's power.
in the texts
Letters to Lucilius
Logicians who raise technical objections against the Stoic claim that posthumous renown is a good.
What is it that I wish to premise?
"You say," he objects, "that no good consists of separate things?
"Renown," he says, "is praise rendered to a good man by the good;
On Moral Ends
Practitioners of dialectic whose current teachings are traced back to the old philosophers rather than to Zeno's innovation.
Those things which the dialecticians now hand down and teach — were they not instituted or invented by them?
Tusculan Disputations
Practitioners of logical analysis whose method and terminology are invoked for precise argument.
I was asking, then, whether I should spread the sails of discourse at once, or first propel it a little with the oars of the dialecticians.
They also distinguish this — that lust is of those things which are spoken of some one or some several things, which the dialecticians call katēgorēmata (predicates), as to have riches, to take offices;
Stromata
Contemporary practitioners of dialectic criticized for pursuing sophistry rather than the true, God-directed dialectic.
and it is to be acquired by the temperate man, not for the sake of saying or doing anything toward men, as the dialecticians now do who busy themselves about sophistical things, but for being able both to say what is pleasing to God and to do what is pleasing to him, the whole according to one's power.
Antidosis
Practitioners of dialogue named as one branch of prose composition.
while still others have occupied themselves with dialogue, and are called dialecticians.
Theaetetus
Professional teachers of letters invoked as a comparison for someone who can recite the syllables of a name without thereby possessing genuine philosophical knowledge of it.
But he, perhaps, would think we were ridiculous, just as he would if, on being asked about your name, we should reply by telling the syllables, holding a right opinion and expressing correctly what we have to say, but should think we were grammarians and as such both possessed and were expressing as grammarians would the rational explanation of the name Theaetetus.