eristic
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Here, then, is a double indication of the connexion of the Parmenides with the Eristic school.
From Parmenides by Jowett, Benjamin
In both dialogues the Proteus Sophist is exhibited, first, in the disguise of an Eristic, secondly, of a false statesman.
From Statesman by Plato
One more feature of the Eristic rather than of the Sophist is the tendency of the troublesome animal to run away into the darkness of Not-being.
From Sophist by Plato
The two great speculative philosophies, which a century earlier had so deeply impressed the mind of Hellas, were now degenerating into Eristic.
From Theaetetus by Jowett, Benjamin
The Megarian school of philosophy, founded by Euclides of Megara, a pupil of Socrates, practised dialectic, and was called the Eristic, or disputatious, sect.
From Greek Women by Carroll, Mitchell
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Rhetoric
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