Meanings of eristic in English

He belonged to the fighting class, and was further distinguished as a hero of debate, who professed the eristic art.

The philosophy which in the first and second generation was a great and inspiring effort of reflection, in the third becomes sophistical, verbal, eristic.

The Aneristic Principle is that of order, the Eristic Principle is that of disorder.

Here, then, is a double indication of the connexion of the Parmenides with the Eristic school.

But I still get confused about the differences between the Erisian, the Eristic and the Discordian.

They were of the Megaran school, and were named Dialectics; and also, with more truth, Eristics, or quarrellers.

In both dialogues the Proteus Sophist is exhibited, first, in the disguise of an Eristic, secondly, of a false statesman.

The two great speculative philosophies, which a century earlier had so deeply impressed the mind of Hellas, were now degenerating into Eristic.

Here again we catch a glimpse rather of a Socratic or Eristic than of a Sophist in the ordinary sense of the term.