📚 Eristic, adjective. 🔉 /ɛˈrɪstɪk/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition (formal): Of or characterized by debate or argument. ❗️ Examples: 1. While most of this dialogue is given over to Euthydemus’ and Dionysiodorus' eristic display, there are two Socratic interludes. 2. In the early history of television, program producers could afford an eristic assumption that they were message purveyors to a receiver-only audience. 3. According to Schopenhauer Eristic Dialectic is mainly concerned to tabulate and analyse dishonest stratagems, in order that in a real debate they may be at once recognised and defeated. 4. In Eric Ambler's prewar thrillers, the interest (in Auden's words) is ‘the ethical and eristic conflict between good and evil, between Us and Them.’ 5. The squaring of the circle by means of lunes is not eristic, but the quadrature of Bryson is eristic. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic