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When does it collapse into the Babel of trolling, the pointless and eristic game of talking the other guy into crying "uncle"?— The Moderate Voice
They are adept at campaigning, and despite awareness of the tactics, adopting Rove's guidelines remains an effective, albeit eristic, tool for them. was merely the exectution and staging of a speech she didn't write.— Zennie62: The Blog Report On CoLoursTV - Politics News Media Tech Blog
The first book forms in truth an eristic, a destructive or negative, Dialogue (such as we have other examples of) in which the whole business might have concluded, prematurely, with an exposure of the inadequacy, alike of common-sense as represented by Simonides, and of a sophisticated philosophy as represented by Thrasymachus, to define Justice.— Plato and Platonism
Or it lapses into "eristic"--into an argument for its own sake; or sinks into logomachy, a mere dispute about words.— Plato and Platonism

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