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Significados de eristic em inglês

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polemista

A person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy.

polemista

Given to disputation for its own sake and often employing specious arguments.

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Examples for "controversialist"
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True, he's better known as a level-headed host than a headstrong controversialist.
The Irish Times
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Was a great controversialist, a lifelong Democrat, and an enemy of Tammany.
The new yorker
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A controversialist tends to want to smother contradiction in deceptively straightforward elegance.
The Guardian
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The younger man did not present the appearance of a crushed controversialist.
The Wolf's Long Howl
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Tonight's the night Ireland's chief controversialist aims to take on the establishment.
The Irish Times
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The disputant who depends entirely upon a set speech is greatly handicapped.
Practical Argumentation
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The other disputant was German or Norwegian, and uninterested, though very kindly.
Letters from America
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What was to be done with the remains of the unsuccessful disputant?
Dave Darrin's First Year at Annapolis / Two Plebe Midshipmen at ...
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Flaubert may have been a better disputant; he had a talent for writing.
The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
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A wrangler and disputant threatening the other party with a law-suit:
The Wonders of Pompeii
Uso de eristic em inglês
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He belonged to the fighting class, and was further distinguished as a hero of debate, who professed the eristic art.
Sophist
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The philosophy which in the first and second generation was a great and inspiring effort of reflection, in the third becomes sophistical, verbal, eristic.
Euthydemus
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The Aneristic Principle is that of order, the Eristic Principle is that of disorder.
The illuminatus! trilogy
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Here, then, is a double indication of the connexion of the Parmenides with the Eristic school.
Parmenides
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But I still get confused about the differences between the Erisian, the Eristic and the Discordian.
The illuminatus! trilogy
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They were of the Megaran school, and were named Dialectics; and also, with more truth, Eristics, or quarrellers.
Alexandria and Her Schools / Four Lectures Delivered at the Phil...
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In both dialogues the Proteus Sophist is exhibited, first, in the disguise of an Eristic, secondly, of a false statesman.
Statesman
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The two great speculative philosophies, which a century earlier had so deeply impressed the mind of Hellas, were now degenerating into Eristic.
Theaetetus
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Here again we catch a glimpse rather of a Socratic or Eristic than of a Sophist in the ordinary sense of the term.
Sophist
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Translations for eristic
Eristic ao longo do tempo