| The tenson or debate is in dialogue form, and when there are more than two disputants is called torneijamens. |
| Thus, like modern disputants, they aimed either to confute the respondent or to land him in paradox. |
| When he paid his next visit, it so happened that one of these duodecimo disputants lay upon the table. |
| Likewise, the King regularly calls the disputants, his subjects, thou in the singular and you in the plural. |
| The social scientist analyzes the interchanges of the disputants from the standpoint that there is a correct position and an incorrect one. |
| But these terms, profoundly limiting as they are, are actually touchstones that disputants in the periodical debate would recognize. |
