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单词 eristic
释义 eris·tic
I. \ə̇ˈristik, (ˈ)e|r-, -tēk\ adjective
also eris·ti·cal \-tə̇kəl, -tēk-\
Etymology: Greek eristikos fond of wrangling, from eristos (verbal of erizein to wrangle, vie with, from eris quarrel, strife) + -ikos -ic, -ical
: characterized by disputatious often subtle and specious reasoning (as in argument)
 < not … in any eristic temper, but in order to increase mutual understanding, desiring to get as well as to give — Walter Moberly >
— compare apodictic, controversial, dialectical
eris·ti·cal·ly \-tə̇k(ə)lē, -tēk-, -li\ adverb
II. noun
(-s)
1. : a person devoted to logical disputation : controversialist; specifically : a Megarian philosopher
2. : the art or practice of disputation and polemics (as in Aristotelian logic) especially as based on specious grounds
 < a kind of eristic, training the student to use the processes of thought and their expression … to attain an end, commonly argumentative — H.O.Taylor >
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