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- noun Plural form of
eristic .
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Examples
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Yes, Menexenus; but will not that be a monstrous answer? and will not the all-wise eristics be down upon us in triumph, and ask, fairly enough, whether love is not the very opposite of hate; and what answer shall we make to them — must we not admit that they speak the truth?
Lysis; or Friendship 2006
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(Take as an example the introduction to the Helen of Isocrates-there is nothing in common between the ‘eristics’ and Helen.)
Rhetoric Aristotle 2002
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Yes, Menexenus; but will not that be a monstrous answer? and will not the all-wise eristics be down upon us in triumph, and ask, fairly enough, whether love is not the very opposite of hate; and what answer shall we make to them -- must we not admit that they speak the truth?
Lysis 427? BC-347? BC Plato 1855
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