The eristic method allowed them to prove their ideas by disproving those of the one they were arguing with and therefore indirectly proving one's own point ( " see reductio ad absurdum " ).
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According to Schopenhauer, " Eristic Dialectic " is mainly concerned to tabulate and analyze dishonest stratagems, so that they may at once be recognized and defeated, in order to continue with a productive dialectic debate.
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:The Aneristic Principle is that of APPARENT ORDER; the Eristic Principle is that of APPARENT DISORDER . Both order and disorder are man made concepts and are artificial divisions of PURE CHAOS, which is a level deeper than is the level of distinction making.
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The titles of his books such as, " Technique of Eristics " ( " Techn EristikMn ", literally " Practice of Wranglings ", with wrestling used as a metaphor for intellectual debate ) prove that Protagoras also was a teacher of rhetoric and argumentation.
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It also makes outrageous statements, citing references from the Principia Discordia as if they were facts, such as this statement : " According to Principia Discordia, it was around this time that he and Greg Hill alias Malaclypse the Younger or Mal-2 shared their first Eristic vision in a bowling alley in their hometown of Whittier, California . " Never mind that writing a " biography " with statements like immediately brings into question the credibility of the entire article, the more important question is how should the Principia be used as a source.
