eristic meaning
Adjective: eristic e'ristik
- Given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments
- eristical
- A person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy
- disputant, controversialist - The art of logical disputation (especially if specious)
Derived forms: eristics
See also: argumentative
Type of: art, artistry, individual, mortal, person, prowess, somebody, someone, soul
Encyclopedia: Eristic
Examples
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- a solidstate photosensitive electron device whose current voltage charact eristic is a function of incident radiation
- the correlative study on distribution of the charact eristics of tcm syndrome of alcoholic liver fibrosis and alcoholic consumption
- this dissertation does researches on the design of arresting force, the charact eristics of the system, the control strategies and the deviation rectifying
- The artificial concept of no-relation is the Eristic Principle.