| Controversy is an inevitable element of medical progress, but sometimes it degenerates into doubtful disputations. |
| And we encounter masses of arguments and counterarguments spread over incessant debates and disputations. |
| He was known to be a terror for demolishing opponents in public disputations. |
| Have they not, as Paul says, become vain in their disputations, always trifling about universals, formalities, connotations, and various other foolish words? |
| The most important and longest of the Christian-Jewish disputations the consequence of which was mass conversions and intensified persecutions. |
| Plato institutionalized such disputations into structured, rule-governed verbal contests that became known as dialectical argument. |
