eristical
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Never yet have they entered the lists in an eristical encounter, but to their cost.
From Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published by Maria Monk
Aristotle divides all conclusions into logical and dialectical, in the manner described, and then into eristical.
From The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by T. Bailey (Thomas Bailey) Saunders
At the same time, there are three species of syllogism, scientific, dialectical and eristical or sophistical; and in consequence there are different ways of acquiring premisses.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various
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