eristic , auch: eristical

In practice, Marxist dialectics was frequently used as a tool of eristic and propaganda.

Socrates' comments also suggest that he is associated with the Greek eristic tradition of debate.

He names these three last methods as "eristic dialectic (contentious argument)."

He belonged to the fighting class, and was further distinguished as a hero of debate, who professed the eristic art.

They prefer their own pastoral and Eristic ways, and I, for one, would never interfere with them.

It also encompasses eristic dialog, the branch of social debate in which victory over an opponent is the primary goal.

No matter how one attempts to refute eristic arguments, the argument is designed so that any means of refutation will fail.

Argumentation theory is a field of study that asks critical questions about eristic arguments and the other types of dialogue.

Socrates is also supposed to have reproved Euclid for his fondness for eristic disputes.

Euclid and his Megarian followers used dialogue and the eristic method to defend their ideas.

(The 'eristic' element in Brunner's apologetics also reflects this.)

As examples of eristic scriptures, Stroumsa cites the following Gospel passages:

In the dialogue Euthydemus, Plato satirizes eristic.

Per fas et nefas (Latin for all funds lawfully or unlawfully ) - Unfair eristic treatment.

For they say that you corrupt all who meet you by teaching them good-for-nothing, eristic sophistries, while I in like manner teach them erotic.

Other types of dialogue in addition to persuasion are eristic, information seeking, inquiry, negotiation, deliberation, and the dialectical method (Douglas Walton).

Plato defines Euthydemus' and Dionysodorus' argumentation as 'eristic'.

The author uses the term dialegesthai in an un-Platonic fashion to refer, not to dialectic, but to what Plato considered eristic.

The age of Grummet begins with an upsurge of magicians, hoaxers, Yippies, Kabouters, shamans, clowns, and other Eristic forces.

Locke presented this type of argument as a form of eristic debate in which participants wrangle over the issues without substance in evidence, but to "drive each other" to accept a point.

For him, dialectic, sophistry and eristic have no objective truth in view, but only the appearance of it, and pay no regard to truth itself because it aims at victory.

The Eristic method allowed them to prove their ideas by disproving those of the one they were arguing with and therefore indirectly proving one's own point (see reductio ad absurdum).

Gedaliahu G. Stroumsa asserts that 'irenic' and 'eristic' tendencies (i.e. peace and strife) co-exist in the New Testament.

The characters Euthydemos and his brother Dionysodorus are sophists questioned by Socrates in a confrontation of the Euthydemian eristic and the Socratic elenchus.

And if he were a philosopher of the eristic and antagonistic sort, I should say to him: You have my answer, and if I am wrong, your business is to take up the argument and refute me.

Yes, and with a fresh pedigree, for he is the money-making species of the Eristic, disputatious, controversial.

Eristic is arguing for the sake of conflict as opposed to the seeking of conflict resolution.

"The Eristic is the opposite of the Aneristic," Hagbard explained patiently, "and, therefore, identical with it.

Eristic, from the ancient Greek word Eris meaning wrangle or strife, often refers to a type of argument where the participants fight and quarrel without any reasonable goal.

Oh, yes, here we are: Tradition in Revolution, Democratic Oligarchy, Parmenidean Dynamics, Heraclitean Statics, Spartan Sybaritics, Tautological Dialectics, Boolean Eristic."