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
The philosophy which in the first and second generation was a great and inspiring effort of reflection, in the third becomes sophistical, verbal, eristic.
From Euthydemus 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
