Crossword-Solution: ERISTICS 8 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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

Yes, Menexenus; but will not that be a monstrous answer? and will not the all-wise eristics be down upon us in triumph, and ask, fairly enough, whether love is not the very opposite of hate; and what answer shall we make to them--must we not admit that they speak the truth? We must.

And if any one assails you there, you would not mind him, or answer him, until you had seen whether the consequences which follow agree with one another or not, and when you are further required to give an explanation of this principle, you would go on to assume a higher principle, and a higher, until you found a resting-place in the best of the higher; but you would not confuse the principle and the consequences in your reasoning, like the Eristics--at least if you wanted to discover real existence.

The war is carried on against the Eristics in all the later dialogues, sometimes with a playful irony, at other times with a sort of contempt.

Although professing not to be mere Eristics, but philosophers, I suspect that we have unconsciously fallen into the error of that ingenious class of persons.