verb
- to negate, contradict, or deny something while preserving it at a higher level of understanding
Usage: philosophical; technical
Examples
- In Hegelian dialectics, the thesis is sublated by the antithesis to form a synthesis.
- The philosopher argued that traditional morality must be sublated rather than simply rejected.
- Through critical analysis, outdated theories are sublated and incorporated into new frameworks.
- The concept of individual freedom was sublated within the broader notion of collective responsibility.
- Marx sublated Hegel’s idealism by grounding it in material conditions.