Eristic
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Eristic is an adjective meaning Provoking strife, controversy or discord.
Meaning
Provoking strife, controversy or discord.
More Meanings
- One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
- A type of dialogue or argument where the participants do not have any reasonable goal. The aim is to argue for the sake of conflict, and often to see who can yell the loudest.
Example Sentences
Poets may be incurious of the subtleties of philological eristic, but they are wont to see into the heart of things.
c. 1810-1834? Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Waterland a specimen of admirable special pleading in the court of eristic logic
Word Forms
- eristical
- eristics
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include controversialist, disputatious, contentious, conflictive, flammable, provocative.
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