'disputation' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to refer to an earnest or heated discussion or argument. For example, "In a lengthy disputation, the two sides agreed to disagree on the issue."
Conversely, in the harmful style of disputation, the disputer distorts and twists the opponent's words, making them come out false or inconsistent or extending them in unintended ways.
The question is not an easy one.[22] For, oddly, although medieval authors themselves speak of positio as a kind of "disputation," there seems at first to be nothing really in dispute!
As Japan takes up political debate and even disputation, it will sacrifice some of the force of its single-mindedness.But overall it will gain.
"Cricket indulges Indian taste for chatter and disputation, gossip and debate".
Disputation about gambling has resulted in some of the ugliest fighting seen in recent years in Taiwan's parliament.
Once the city council had opted, last April, for a Munich-only exhibit, more disputation arose over who should sit on the three advisory bodies for the project.
But too much should not be made of the disputation.
Both had been left-wing Marxist movements; both had been through purges and periods of extreme ideological disputation.
Their reluctance to embrace the spirit of the revolution has perpetuated a mood of angry disputation.
His invitation to Pakistan's leader was seen as an act of statesmanship, but Pakistan did better at exploiting the disputation at the summit that followed.
The new theology would require advanced linguistic skills rather than skill in dialectical disputation.
