6 example sentences using eristic.
Eristic used in a sentence
Eristic in a sentence as a noun
They can use their eristic skills to make stuck up people lose face and/or their ****.
The argument from surgeon is so bad that it's borderline eristic.
This is a wonderful rhetoric, a nice example of eristic dialectic.
Eristic in a sentence as an adjective
I guess they didn't like Schopenhauer's eristic dialectic.
The sophists weren't infamous for employing rhetoric, but rather sophistry and eristic.
Here's Plato, for example: "it is on the purely verbal level that they look for the contradiction in what has been said, and employ eristic, not dialectic, on one another.
Eristic definitions
a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
See also: disputant controversialist
the art of logical disputation (especially if specious)
given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments
See also: eristical