What does eristic mean?
Eristic means Provoking strife, controversy or discord..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Provoking strife, controversy or discord..
c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Waterland a specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic
Poets may be incurious of the subtleties of philological eristic, but they are wont to see into the heart of things.
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Eristic means Provoking strife, controversy or discord..
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c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Waterland a specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic
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