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

synonym: eristic.

Roget 476: reasoning etc. v.; rationalistic; argumentative, controversial, dialectic, polemical; discursory^†, discursive; disputatious; Aristotelian^†, eristic^†, eristical^†.    debatable, controvertible.    logical; relevant etc. 23.    ... show more