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Eristic

noun

A person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy. Synonyms: controversialist, disputant.

The art of logical disputation (especially if specious).

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... Parmenides are expressly said to follow the method of Zeno, and that the complex dilemma, though declared to be capable of universal application, is applied in this instance to Zeno's familiar question of the 'one and many.' Here, then, is a double indication of the connexion of the Parmenides with the Eristic school. The old Eleatics had asserted the existence of Being, which they at first regarded as finite, then as infinite, then as neither finite nor infinite, to which some of them had given what Aristotle calls 'a form,' others had ascribed ...

— Parmenides • Plato

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