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Disputation
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A formal argument or debate, especially one conducted according to set rules, often in an academic setting.
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Medieval universities trained students through public disputation.
The two scholars engaged in a heated disputation over the manuscript's origin.
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Rooted in medieval scholastic tradition, where formal disputations were a standard method of academic instruction.
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