Definitionadj. given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments
Last update: August 10, 2015
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They spent their energy in attacking Plato and Aristotle, and hence earned the opprobrious epithet of Eristic. They used their dialectic subtlety to disprove the possibility of motion and decay; unity is the negation of change, increase and decrease, birth and death. [Please select]
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[184:6] The reader will find a good illustration of eristic in Plato's _Euthydemus_, 275. [Please select]
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Socrates disclaims the character of a professional eristic, and also, with a sort of ironical admiration, expresses his inability to attain the Megarian precision in the use of terms. [Please select]
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The Megarian or Eristic spirit within us revives the question, which has been already asked and indirectly answered in the Meno: 'How can a man be ignorant of that which he knows.' [Please select]
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