Sentence examples for disputation from high-quality English sources.

• It is this kind of disputation that is at issue in the treatises on obligationes.

• …disputation, the Topics and the Sophistical Refutations, belong to this early period.

• Disputation about gambling has resulted in some of the ugliest fighting seen in recent years in Taiwan's parliament.

• Looking back through past Open door columns, many of the issues that have arisen were familiar, and will be back in some form or other: tragedy; fame, including royal fame; terror, too many times by far; dependability; the cruelty of states; prejudice and memory; change, redesign, misunderstandings and adjustments; offence, coarse language, disputation and misjudgment.

• The disputation thus becomes a refutation of the thesis, or its own starting point.

• …on logic and disputation, the Topics and the Sophistical Refutations, belong to this early period.

• …Rhetoric but also in his Topics, which he had designed for dialectics, for disputation among experts.

• He establishes a link between disputation and litigation that continues throughout the classical period.

Use disputation in a sentence.

• The Stoics kept their interest focused on disputation and developed their studies in this area to a high degree.

• Several other canons—equally obscure, but worth summarizing briefly here—identify potential problems in disputation.

• The popularity of these public spectacles shows the importance and influence of scholastic disputation on the larger culture.

• On this reading, the participant would have to agree at the beginning which set of rules are followed in the incipient disputation.

• The theological question is a report (reportatio) of a theological disputation in which Autrecourt served as respondent to the objections.

• The disputation is centered around a systematic rather than a textual question, and the supporting and opposing arguments are supplied by students.

• As long as he picks an “admissible” positum to begin with, the opponent is otherwise free to propose anything he pleases at any step of the disputation.

• On the contrary, most authors seem to have regarded them as merely argumentative nuisances, and their main concern was to come up with a way of dealing with them when they arose in disputation.

disputation sentence examples

• We can learn about the serious practice of disputation by studying what is in effect a spoof of disputation, just as an anthropologist can learn about a culture by studying its humor.

• However important dialectical syllogisms may have been for medieval disputation, it should also be recognized that action-planning in conscience was conceived as deduction from (partly) probable premises.

• In Metaphysical Disputation 39, he is primarily concerned with the division of accidents into nine highest genera, and the discussion of categories is incidental and indirect, rather than deliberate and explicit.

• Now his Topica, Analytica priora, and Analytica posteriora were rendered into Latin, giving the Schoolmen access to the Aristotelian methods of disputation and science, which became their own techniques of discussion and inquiry.