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Sophism
Sophism Soph"ism, n. [F. sophisme, L. sophisma, fr. Gr. ?, fr.
? to make wise, ? to be become wise, to play the sophist, fr.
? wise.]
The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist;
hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true
one, then it is properly called a sophism, or
``fallacy'. --I. Watts.
Let us first rid ourselves of sophisms, those of
depraved men, and those of heartless philosophers. --I.
Taylor.
Meaning of Sophisms from wikipedia
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adjust to
changing conditions".
Among his better-known
works is
Economic Sophisms, a
series of
essays (originally
published in the
Journal des économistes)...
- God and the
State (called by its
author The
Historical Sophisms of the
Doctrinaire School of Communism) is an
unfinished m****cript by the
Russian anarchist...
- The
sophists taught their students two main techniques: the
usage of
sophisms and contradictions.
These means distinguished the
speeches of the sophists...
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Sophistical Re****ations (Gr****: Σοφιστικοὶ Ἔλεγχοι, romanized: Sophistikoi Elenchoi; Latin: De
Sophisticis Elenchis) is a text in Aristotle's
Organon in...
- His
magnum opus was the
Regulae solvendi sophismata (Rules for
Solving Sophisms),
written about 1335. He was
Chancellor of the
University of
Oxford for...
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poetry from
German into English. Free
Trade and Its So-Called
Sophisms: A
Reply to '
Sophisms of Free Trade, etc.,
Examined by a Barrister' with Lord Vere...
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logical and semi-logical. The semi-logical
group included all of Aristotle's
sophisms except ignoratio elenchi,
petitio principii, and non
causa pro causa, which...
- 2007). Economics,
Competition and Academia: An
Intellectual History of
Sophism Versus Virtue.
Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 101–. ISBN 978-1-84720-716-6...
- drama,
Aristophanes presents a
caricature of
Socrates that
leans towards sophism,
ridiculing Socrates as an
absurd atheist.
Socrates in
Clouds is interested...
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suggests an
origin from the now-defunct "sophomore", an
obsolete variant of "
sophism". In the U.S., a
Junior is a
student in the
penultimate (usually third)...
