*Doctor of Philosophy (PhD),
The article analyzes the socio-historical and logical-epistemological foundations of the development of eristics as the art of dispute. Changes in the structure and paradigm of the phenomenon of dispute as an event occurring depending on socio-political needs, interests of life of each historical period are investigated.
Formal Logic, Argumentation, Dispute, Dispute, Alternative Thought, Argument, Social Process, Dialectics, Dogma, Criticism, Analysis, Synthesis, Truth