Define eristic. eristic synonyms, eristic pronunciation, eristic translation, English dictionary definition of eristic. also e·ris·ti·cal adj. Given to or characterized by disputatious, often specious argument. n. 1. One given to disputation or argume
noun 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. adjective given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments noun a person ...
Secondly, the art of controversy or eristic, since the diagrams do not analyse the truth of judgements and the validity of inferences, but the persuasiveness of arguments in a dialogue.Lemanski, JensArgumentation
Secondly, the art of controversy or eristic, since the diagrams do not analyse the truth of judgements and the validity of inferences, but the persuasiveness of arguments in a dialogue.doi:10.1007/s10503-022-09587-1Lemanski, Jens
How does the analysis and evaluation of argumentation depend on the dialogue type in which the argumentation has been put forward? This paper focuses on argumentative bluff in eristic discussion. Argumentation cannot be presented without conveying the pretence that it is dialectically reasonable, as ...
I also argue that the Theaetetus only appears to be an aporetic dialogue; read in the context of Plato's earlier work, it actually offers a series of refutations aimed at the theoretical assumptions that underpin the practice of sophistic eristic. I conclude by suggesting that the results of ...
I further argue that these assumptions account for some of the epistemological puzzles of that dialogue that Socrates cannot solve.;In the final chapter I make the case that in the Theaetetus Plato both explicitly and implicitly challenges the sophistic theory of the Euthydemus and the perceptual/...
The argument has no doctrinal significance and no deep connection with the other arguments of the dialogue. Its interest proves to be broadly methodological rather than doctrinal, a showpiece of eristic display.doi:10.1080/24740500.2020.1716662Russell E. Jones...
To represent these dialogue situations, Schopenhauer created large maps with concepts and Euler-type diagrams, which from today's perspective are a specific form of graphs. We first present the original method with Euler-type diagrams, then give the most important graph-theoretical definitions, then...