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

noun

a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy

See also: disputant controversialist

noun

the art of logical disputation (especially if specious)

adjective

given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments

See also: eristical