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Logomachy   Listen
noun
Logomachy  n.  
1.
Contention in words merely, or a contention about words; a war of words. "The discussion concerning the meaning of the word "justification"... has largely been a mere logomachy."
2.
A game of word making.





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... understood and half unconscious of itself, and the time when it appears on the stage in full strength and maturity, recognizing itself as new and so acknowledged by others: the period of ferment between the Middle Ages and modern times lasted almost two centuries. It is in the end little more than logomachy to discuss whether this time of anticipation and desire, of endeavor and partial success, in which the new struggles with the old without conquering it, and the opposite tendencies in the conflicting views of the world interplay in a way at once obscure and wayward, is ...
— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg


Words linked to "Logomachy" :   argument, argumentation


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