eristic
Example Sentences
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What eristic discipline they brought to their sciolistic quibbles, though prone to occasional bursts of rodomontade!
From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2015
Within the war room, the atmosphere is informal, spirited, irreverent, eristic -- and often openly critical of GM's past practices.
From Time Magazine Archive
Sulzberger's congeners will be pleased to find that The Tooth Merchant, though occasionally eristic, never stoops to flocculence.
From Time Magazine Archive
Socrates disclaims the character of a professional eristic, and also, with a sort of ironical admiration, expresses his inability to attain the Megarian precision in the use of terms.
From Theaetetus by Benjamin Jowett
Sophistry, logomachy, eristic: we may learn what these are, sometimes, from Plato's own practice.
From Plato and Platonism by Walter Pater
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Rhetoric
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Rhetoric
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