Adjective(1) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments(2) argumentative
Noun(1) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy(2) the art of logical disputation (especially if specious(3) a person who disputes(4) who is good at or enjoys controversy(5) the art of logical disputation (especially if specious)
Adjective(1) given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments(2) argumentative
Noun(1) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy(2) the art of logical disputation (especially if specious(3) a person who disputes(4) who is good at or enjoys controversy(5) the art of logical disputation (especially if specious)
(1) In the early history of television, program producers could afford an eristic assumption that they were message purveyors to a receiver-only audience.(2) While most of this dialogue is given over to Euthydemusu2019 and Dionysiodorus' eristic display, there are two Socratic interludes.(3) The squaring of the circle by means of lunes is not eristic, but the quadrature of Bryson is eristic .(4) In the dialogue Euthydemus, Plato satirizes eristic .(5) In Eric Ambler's prewar thrillers, the interest (in Auden's words) is u2018the ethical and eristic conflict between good and evil, between Us and Them.u2019(6) Hippias infers from the look of Socrates' speeches and deeds that he is an eristic sophist.(7) Eristic dialogue is arguing for the sake of conflict, fighting, and often to see who can yell the loudest.(8) Arthur Schopenhauer once wrote a marvelously cynical manual of eristics called The Art of Always Being Right.(9) It has now fallen to the level of Eristic s, in which the winner of a debate is the one who shouts the loudest and has the best arsenal of insults.(10) Moreover, we know by the evidence of Sokrates himself, that he was an Eristic not only by taste, but on principle, and by a sense of duty.(11) An ancient comic writer has said of him: Eubulides the Eristic , who proposed sophistic dilemmas and confounded the orators with false and pompous arguments, is gone with the vulgar and useless chatter of Demosthenes.(12) According to Schopenhauer Eristic Dialectic is mainly concerned to tabulate and analyse dishonest stratagems, in order that in a real debate they may be at once recognised and defeated.(13) If we'd been crafting the performance/presentation this week, I'd have been thinking more eristically .(14) It seems you are going against scholarly consensus in belittling the importance of the decree only because you must do so eristically and strategically to downplay the timing of the annuity.
