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PRONUNCIATION OF PEIRASTIC

peirastic  [paɪˈræstɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PEIRASTIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Peirastic is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES PEIRASTIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of peirastic in the English dictionary

The definition of peirastic in the dictionary is involving an experiment, experimental.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PEIRASTIC


antiphrastic
ˌæntɪˈfræstɪk
drastic
ˈdræstɪk
elastic
ɪˈlæstɪk
enthusiastic
ɪnˌθjuːzɪˈæstɪk
fantastic
fænˈtæstɪk
gymnastic
dʒɪmˈnæstɪk
holophrastic
ˌhɒləˈfræstɪk
hudibrastic
ˌhjuːdɪˈbræstɪk
hypoplastic
ˌhaɪpəʊˈplæstɪk
mastic
ˈmæstɪk
metaphrastic
ˌmetəˈfræstɪk
neoplastic
ˌniːəʊˈplæstɪk
paraphrastic
ˌpærəˈfræstɪk
pederastic
ˌpɛdəˈræstɪk
periphrastic
ˌpɛrɪˈfræstɪk
plastic
ˈplæstɪk
sarcastic
sɑːˈkæstɪk
scholastic
skəˈlæstɪk
stochastic
stɒˈkæstɪk
thermoplastic
ˌθɜːməʊˈplæstɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PEIRASTIC

pegless
peglike
pegmatite
pegmatitic
Pegu
peh
Pehlevi
Pei
peignoir
Peipus
Peiraeus
peirastically
Peirce
peize
pejorate
pejoration
pejorative
pejoratively
pekan
peke

WORDS THAT END LIKE PEIRASTIC

antineoplastic
bombastic
domestic
dynastic
dysplastic
foam plastic
hyperplastic
inelastic
lymphoblastic
megaloblastic
monastic
myeloblastic
orgastic
orgiastic
phantastic
reinforced plastic
Silastic
spastic
trophoblastic
unenthusiastic
viscoelastic

Synonyms and antonyms of peirastic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «peirastic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PEIRASTIC

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Translator English - Chinese

peirastic
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

peirastic
570 millions of speakers

English

peirastic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

peirastic
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

peirastic
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

peirastic
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

peirastic
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

peirastic
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peirastic
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Mengejek
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

peirastic
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

peirastic
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

peirastic
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Peirastic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

peirastic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

peirastic
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मुर्खपणाचा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

peirastic
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

peirastic
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

peirastic
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

peirastic
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

peirastic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

peirastic
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

peirastic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

peirastic
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

peirastic
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of peirastic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PEIRASTIC»

The term «peirastic» is normally little used and occupies the 138.939 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PEIRASTIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about peirastic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PEIRASTIC»

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The Death of Argument: Fallacies in Agent Based Reasoning
Peirastic. Refutations. As we have seen, it is a condition on transaction of question-and- answer games that A gives an answer to Q's propositions which he sincerely believes. Answers must be 'actual beliefs' (ta dokounta), of the answerer ...
J.H. Woods, 2004
2
The Myth of Aristotle's Development and the Betrayal of ...
One form of dialectical elenchus is that which is ultimately based on peirastic dialectic, the very kind practiced by Socrates. Robert Bolton has revived Aristotle's peirastic dialectic as a way of understanding Aristotle's method of refuting ignorant ...
Walter E. Wehrle, 2001
3
From Puzzles to Principles?: Essays on Aristotle's Dialectic
interested to describe a special form of dialectic which he calls peirastic ( peirastike), or the art of testing. Peirastic is introduced as a method for reasoning from "what is necessarily known by anyone who pretends to have episteme" (i.e.,  ...
May Sim, 1999
4
Ad Hominem Arguments
But what are peirastic arguments, and are they different from or the same as dialectical arguments? In On Sophistical Refutations (165 a 38-165 b 12), Aristotle defines them as two distinct arguments. Dialectical arguments (165 b 3) are those ...
Douglas N. Walton, 1998
5
Dialog Theory for Critical Argumentation
saw a distinction made between peirastic argument and a related type of argument he called exetastic. According to Guthrie, peirastic argument involves a kind of dialog that could be called "testing or probing", while exetastic argument ...
Douglas N. Walton, 2007
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Logic and Language in the Middle Ages: A Volume in Honour of ...
The difference between sophistic and peirastic lies in the ignorance of the answerer. one of the thirteen types of fallacy may trick even a knowledgeable person. but it will not thereby have established that he is ignorant in the field in question. if ...
Jakob Leth Fink, Heine Hansen, Ana María Mora-Marquez, 2012
7
The Development of Dialectic from Plato to Aristotle
Peirastic arguments are those which reason syllogistically from things which are ( a) the convictions of the respondent and are (b) bound to be known by anyone who pretends to have expert knowledge (émoTr'j on). (2.165b4-6) This makes it ...
Jakob Leth Fink, 2012
8
The Oxford Handbook of Aristotle
Ifit is a b-type, the answerer's responses (provided he is honest) must be based on an honest peirastic argument. If it is an a-type, his answers must be based on an honest dialectical argument ofsome other sort. Ifthe answerer claims that not-p  ...
Christopher Shields, 2012
9
Legal Argumentation and Evidence
THE SUBTLETIES OF PEIRASTIC DIALOGUE One of the novelties of this book has been the introduction of the ancient idea of peirastic dialogue, and its companion idea of exetastic dialogue, into the framework for evaluating legal discourse.
Douglas Walton, 2010
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The Art of Dialectic Between Dialogue and Rhetoric: The ...
Here Aristotle writes that “Peirastic is a kind of dialectic ('dialectikē tis') and has in view not the man who knows but the man who is ignorant and pretends to know (' prospoioumenon')” (171b5–6). Notice that the term 'prospoioumenon' also ...
Marta Spranzi, 2011

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PEIRASTIC»

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Kinkajou? Halieutics? Hartebeest? Surviving Your First Spelling Bee
Then she somehow managed to spelled “peirastic” correctly. I've been trying to figure out how to explain what peirastic means all morning, and ... «East End Beacon, May 14»
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The buzz at the Bee
... got 15 questions correct on the written test - a multiple-choice exam that asked him to spell words like syssarcosis, peirastic and solmizate. «New York Daily News, Jun 07»

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