Aristotle divides all conclusions into logical and dialectical, in the manner described, and then into eristical. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Controversy] Reference
Dialectic from Sophistic and Eristic, where the distinction is said to consist in this, that dialectical conclusions are true in their form and their contents, while sophistical and eristical conclusions are false. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Controversy] Reference
Never yet have they entered the lists in an eristical encounter, but to their cost. From Wordnik.com. [Awful Disclosures Containing, Also, Many Incidents Never before Published] Reference
‘eristical’ discussions, be based on the confusion of the absolute with that which is not absolute but particular. From Wordnik.com. [Rhetoric] Reference
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