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

Sulzberger's congeners will be pleased to find that The Tooth Merchant, though occasionally eristic, never stoops to flocculence.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within the war room, the atmosphere is informal, spirited, irreverent, eristic -- and often openly critical of GM's past practices.

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 Jowett, Benjamin

To know how to proceed by regular steps from one to many, and from many to one, is just what makes the difference between eristic and dialectic.

From Philebus by Jowett, Benjamin