Again, as the Socratics - Plato himself, when he established himself at the Academy, being no exception - were, like their master, educators rather than philosophers, and in their teaching laid especial stress upon discussion, they, too, were doubtless regarded as sophists, not by Isocrates only, but by their contemporaries in general; and it may be conjectured that the disputatious tendencies of the Megarian school made it all the more difficult for Plato and others to secure a proper appreciation of the difference between dialectic, or discussion with a view to the discovery of truth, and eristic, or discussion with a view to victory.   anvd [Please select]

But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious.   anvd [Please select]

Being a grammarian, he was probably of a disputatious turn of mind.   anvd [Please select]

Sandy and Ikey they were, and they were having a disputatious argument together.   anvd [Please select]

They, as I have since found, thought me greatly and disagreeably self-conceited; probably because I was disputatious, and did not scruple to give direct contradictions to things which I heard said.   anvd [Please select]

This was a disputatious mixture of deer, hog, and bear--animals which, in life, would surely have companioned each other as ill.   anvd [Please select]