For that is the essential task of the art of discussion (dialectic) and of examination (peirastic). From Wordnik.com. [On Sophistical Refutations] Reference
It enables us to claim one who has been hitherto regarded as belonging to a merely speculative and peirastic school as the willing and deliberate champion of vital Christianity, and of an orthodoxy the more sincere because it has worked upward through the abyss of doubt; the more mighty for good because it justifies and consecrates the aesthetics and the philosophy of the present age. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference
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