Eristic

Eristic is an approach to argument that aims to win a dispute rather than search for truth, a concept named after Eris, the ancient Greek goddess of strife. The Sophists, including Euthydemos and Dionysiodoros, popularized eristic as a question-and-answer teaching method in which students learned to refute an opponent whatever answer was given. Plato criticized eristic in contrast to dialectic and satirized it in the dialogue Euthydemus, while Arthur Schopenhauer treated eristic dialectic as a set of dishonest stratagems to be recognized and defeated, listing 38 of them in his Dialectica Eristica.