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How to use eristic in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word eristic? Here are some examples.

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The squaring of the circle by means of lunes is not eristic, but the quadrature of Bryson is eristic.
Hippias infers from the look of Socrates' speeches and deeds that he is an eristic sophist.
It is useful to deal with eristic dialogues first because they really should have no place in negotiation.
Once eristic dialogues start occurring, it is time for the most sensible party to call off the negotiation.
In the early history of television, program producers could afford an eristic assumption that they were message purveyors to a receiver-only audience.
To the extent that it was used irresponsibly to secure success in debate it was eristic, and the temptation so to use it must often have arisen.
Nevertheless, it's easy to differentiate between an interesting and valid argumentation and rhetorical eristic or common sense.
Eristic dialogue is arguing for the sake of conflict, fighting, and often to see who can yell the loudest.
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.
Examples from Classical Literature
According to Aristotle himself, therefore, the Dialectician is agonistic and eristic, just as much as the Sophist.
Here again we catch a glimpse rather of a Socratic or eristic than of a Sophist in the ordinary sense of the term.
Here, then, is a double indication of the connexion of the Parmenides with the eristic school.
Sokrates was much more eristic than Protagoras, who generally manifested himself by continuous speech or lecture.
He belonged to the fighting class, and was further distinguished as a hero of debate, who professed the eristic art.
Lucian's references to the school are as eristic or argumentative.
An ancient Sophist lawyer called Protagoras once presented an eristic court suit argument regarding a conflict in payment of education fees by an intelligent student.
Here the two interlocutors ran their philosophic school which was noted for its eristic procedure and carrying on in the lines of both Socrates and Parmenides.
If read with care and much hard work, Bruell's book gives an education in the proper method of following Socrates' highly eristic, mercurial arguments.
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