What's the difference between controversialist and eristic?

Controversialist


Definition:

  • (n.) One who carries on a controversy; a disputant.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Also free, there's 2012 best newcomer nominee Cariad Lloyd in her new show with Louise Ford, Alternative Comedy Memorial Society supremo John-Luke Roberts, controversialist Josh Howie, Sunday Assembly co-founder Pippa Evans – and indeed Omielan.
  • (2) Even professional controversialists and contrarians are not minded to suggest that Watkins is anything other than a complete public menace.
  • (3) Photograph: Rex The controversialist Katie Hopkins, writing in the Sun 48 hours before the latest mass drowning, suggested using gun boats on migrants ; her idea proved unnecessary, of course.
  • (4) All of which, as American media commentator Jay Rosen has written , has generated an equally controversialist class of article in reply, most often written far from the revolutions.
  • (5) Gore Vidal, the American writer, controversialist and politician manqué, who has died aged 86, was celebrated both for his caustic wit and his mandarin's poise.
  • (6) Other projects were at one time said to be under way with involvement from George Clooney and perennial historical controversialist Oliver Stone , though neither has yet entered production.
  • (7) The first sees her as an unusually sophisticated media operator; a professional controversialist who knows how to play the publicity game to her advantage.
  • (8) Though a sensitive, emotional man acutely vulnerable to criticism, Terraine was also a bold and indefatigable controversialist, defending his views in the newspaper letter columns and in reviews, articles and a remarkable output of books.
  • (9) But Gill is too good an artist, too ferocious and intrepid a controversialist, to be protected and glossed over.
  • (10) With many former Middle East strongmen finding themselves indisposed after the Arab spring, all UN eyes on Friday will be fixed on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Iranian president, diplomatic headache and effortless controversialist.
  • (11) From the London School of Economics via a rock band and the BBC Today programme, Rod Liddle has risen to become one of Britain's premier controversialists.
  • (12) In person he is polite and engaged, and in print always a contrarian but never a controversialist, sincere in beliefs that are almost as unfashionable on the right as they are anathema to the left.

Eristic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Eristical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Electrophysiological charact eristics of frog intrafusal muscle fibers were studied by means of the intracellular potential recording.

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