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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

eristic en · ADJ

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐριστικός (eristikós, “eager for strife”). See also Eris.

Meanings

  1. 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

Forms

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more eristic Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most eristic Degree=Sup lexicographic
eristical alternative, uncommon lexicographic

Deriveds

aneristic · eristically

Translations (2)

ca erístic (provoking) · de eristisch (provoking)

eristic en · NOUN

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐριστικός (eristikós, “eager for strife”). See also Eris.

Meanings

  1. One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
  2. 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.
    • Poets may be incurious of the subtleties of philological eristic, but they are wont to see into the heart of things. 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “IV. Prometheus”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 111:

Forms

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eristical alternative, uncommon lexicographic
eristics Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (7)

de Eristik (type of dialogue) · it eristica (type of dialogue) · es erística (type of dialogue) · de Eristiker (one who is disputatious) · fi eristiikka (type of dialogue) · fr éristique (type of dialogue) · pl erystyka (type of dialogue)