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  • For once, they put the sophistry aside and used a little common sense.†   (source)
  • Even the sophistry of Whitehall paid court to that law, and Leamas got results.†   (source)
  • She entered the path of sophistry.†   (source)
  • "Humphrey, that is all sophistry, and you know it," said his wife.   (source)
  • He has never confronted a living Sophist.†   (source)
  • In Athens, the Sophists made a living out of teaching the citizens for money.†   (source)
  • Now Plato's hatred of the Sophists makes sense.†   (source)
  • He did not consider himself to be a "sophist"—that is, a learned or wise person.†   (source)
  • In this, then, the Stoics sided with Socrates against the Sophists.†   (source)
  • That is what the Sophists were teaching!†   (source)
  • Fragments by other ancients seemed to lead to other evaluations of the Sophists.†   (source)
  • The word "sophist" means a wise and informed person.†   (source)
  • The name Sophist was even applied without disparagement to Socrates and Plato themselves.†   (source)
  • "Man is the measure of all things," said the Sophist Protagoras (c.†   (source)
  • It seems to agree much more closely with the Sophists.†   (source)
  • But Socrates differed from the Sophists in one significant way.†   (source)
  • These were the famous teachers of "wisdom," the Sophists of ancient Greece.†   (source)
  • We can again draw a parallel with Socrates, who did not accept the skepticism of the Sophists.†   (source)
  • In the dialogue, Gorgias is the name of a Sophist whom Socrates crossexamines.†   (source)
  • Unlike the Sophists, he did not teach for money.†   (source)
  • The Sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government.†   (source)
  • You have probably come across a few of these sophists in your young life.†   (source)
  • One could say that the Sophists had a point here.†   (source)
  • This led the Sophists to raise the question of what was natural and what was socially induced.†   (source)
  • The Sophists chose to concern themselves with man and his place in society.†   (source)
  • Socrates lived at the same time as the Sophists.†   (source)
  • Passion the slave of sophistry and declamation.†   (source)
  • Plato's second synthesis is the incorporation of the Sophists' areté into this dichotomy of Ideas and Appearance.†   (source)
  • Plato's condemnation of the Sophists is one which many scholars have already taken with great misgivings.†   (source)
  • Many of the older Sophists were selected as "ambassadors" of their cities, certainly no office of disrespect.†   (source)
  • To Phaedrus, this backlight from the conflict between the Sophists and the Cosmologists adds an entirely new dimension to the Dialogues of Plato.†   (source)
  • The one thing that doesn't fit what he says and what Plato said about the Sophists is their profession of teaching virtue.†   (source)
  • He and Socrates are defending the Immortal Principle of the Cosmologists against what they consider to be the decadence of the Sophists.†   (source)
  • Unlike the Sophists, he believed that the ability to distinguish between right and wrong lies in people's reason and not in society.†   (source)
  • That would make us like those liars and cheats and defilers of ancient Greece, the Sophists…remember them?†   (source)
  • The Greek Phaedrus is not a Sophist but a young orator who is a foil for Socrates in this dialogue, which is about the nature of love and the possibility of philosophic rhetoric.†   (source)
  • We've seen how the Sophists and Socrates turned their attention from questions of natural philosophy to problems related to man and society.†   (source)
  • All this, which is simply Gorgias' description of what people called Sophists have tended to do, now becomes subtly rendered by Socrates' dialectic into something else.†   (source)
  • But before we meet Socrates, let us hear a little about the so-called Sophists, who dominated the Athenian scene at the time of Socrates.†   (source)
  • And yet in one sense, even Socrates and the Sophists were preoccupied with the relationship between the eternal and immutable, and the "flowing."†   (source)
  • Plato abhors and damns the Sophists without restraint, not because they are low and immoral people…there are obviously much lower and more immoral people in Greece he completely ignores.†   (source)
  • The Sophists are the enemy.†   (source)
  • Because it is central to the rest of this course that you fully understand the difference between a sophist and a philosopher.†   (source)
  • But at the same time the Sophists rejected what they regarded as fruitless philosophical speculation.†   (source)
  • It has even been suggested by some later historians that the reason Plato hated the Sophists so was that they could not compare with his master, Socrates, who was in actuality the greatest Sophist of them all.†   (source)
  • The Sophists took money for their more or less hairsplitting expoundings, and sophists of this kind have come and gone from time immemorial.†   (source)
  • And the bones of the Sophists long ago turned to dust and what they said turned to dust with them and the dust was buried under the rubble of declining Athens through its fall and Macedonia through its decline and fall.†   (source)
  • That was from the Sophists.†   (source)
  • The Sophists had one characteristic in common with the natural philosophers: they were critical of the traditional mythology.†   (source)
  • As you can imagine, the wandering Sophists created bitter wrangling in Athens by pointing out that there were no absolute norms for what was right or wrong.†   (source)
  • It has even been suggested by some later historians that the reason Plato hated the Sophists so was that they could not compare with his master, Socrates, who was in actuality the greatest Sophist of them all.†   (source)
  • Very briefly, the Sophists thought that perceptions of what was right or wrong varied from one city-state to another, and from one generation to the next.†   (source)
  • Phaedrus reads further and further into pre-Socratic Greek thought to find out, and eventually comes to the view that Plato's hatred of the rhetoricians was part of a much larger struggle in which the reality of the Good, represented by the Sophists, and the reality of the True, represented by the dialecticians, were engaged in a huge struggle for the future mind of man.†   (source)
  • They called themselves Sophists.†   (source)
  • It is sophistry to argue that it excludes States absolutely from duties and allows them to lay other taxes subject to the control of the national legislature.†   (source)
  • That face on which the condor Thought has fed, arched with high subtle malice, sophist glee.†   (source)
  • We make the Sophists: He raises up a Socrates to answer them.†   (source)
  • But I felt no need for these sophistries as I sat before my cousin, saw him, freed from his inconclusive struggle with Pindar, in his dark gray suit, his white tie, his scholar's gown; heard his grave tones and, all the time, savored the gillyflowers in full bloom under my windows.†   (source)
  • Oh, my old Sophist, he thought.†   (source)
  • I gave an impatient shrug at such sophistry.†   (source)
  • "Humphrey, that is all sophistry, and you know it," said his wife.†   (source)
  • "Yes, there's something of a sophistry about that," Veslovsky agreed.†   (source)
  • *d [Footnote d: A strange sophism has been made on this head in France.†   (source)
  • It presented itself to her, with no sophistry upon it, in its own plain nature.†   (source)
  • FAUST Thou art, and thou remain'st, a sophist, liar.†   (source)
  • No sophistry of Southerners could blind her to its enormity.†   (source)
  • "That's a beautiful sophism," said the girl with a smile more beautiful still.†   (source)
  • He looked at her imploringly, as if he would willingly have taken a lie from her lips, knowing it to be one, and have made of it, by some sort of sophistry, a valid denial.†   (source)
  • His own image started forth a profaner of the cloister, a heretic franciscan, willing and willing not to serve, spinning like Gherardino da Borgo San Donnino, a lithe web of sophistry and whispering in her ear.†   (source)
  • We have great faith, though yours at present is uncrystallized; we have a terrible honesty that all our sophistry cannot destroy and, above all, a childlike simplicity that keeps us from ever being really malicious.†   (source)
  • It attracted various elements who were weary of their century's sophistries, of its humane, dispassionate enlightenment, and were thirsty for stronger elixirs.†   (source)
  • —a gentle reproach which testified to the genuine goodness of her nature, not that it was prompted by any resentment at hearing her father spoken of in this fashion (for that was evidently a feeling which she had trained herself, by a long course of sophistries, to keep in close subjection at such moments), but rather because it was the bridle which, so as to avoid all appearance of egotism, she herself used to curb the gratification which her friend was attempting to procure for her.†   (source)
  • You always come back to my point, in spite of your wrigglings and evasions and sophistries, not to mention the intolerable length of your speeches.†   (source)
  • The other delegates from America—red-headed Schwartz with his saint's face and his infinite patience in straddling two worlds, as well as dozens of commercial alienists with hang-dog faces, who would be present partly to increase their standing, and hence their reach for the big plums of the criminal practice, partly to master novel sophistries that they could weave into their stock in trade, to the infinite confusion of all values.†   (source)
  • Oh, damn your sophistries!†   (source)
  • He smiled, but not without difficulty, and said, "I can appreciate a quick answer when I hear one, even when its logic borders on sophistry.†   (source)
  • —old Mr Clare; one of the most earnest of his school; one of the few intense men left in the Church; not so intense as the extreme wing of Christian believers with which I have thrown in my lot, but quite an exception among the Established clergy, the younger of whom are gradually attenuating the true doctrines by their sophistries, till they are but the shadow of what they were.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Leo's restive mind and sophistry soon showed a rebellious streak; he made the acquaintance of the son of a social-democratic member of the Reichsrat, and following the lead of this hero of the masses, had directed his mind along political paths, turning his passion for logic to the field of social criticism.†   (source)
  • And he was about to sink down to rest, when the realization suddenly came to him, grabbed him by the collar, so to speak, that these babbling thoughts about his "position" could likewise be due only to the effects of Kulmbach beer, had arisen solely from an impersonal desire to lie down and sleep, the same typical and dangerous desire you found discussed in books, a desire that was trying to delude him with its sophistries and puns.†   (source)
  • He did not exactly suspect the secret objects of Muir, but he was far from being blind to his sophistry.†   (source)
  • Deerslayer, on the other hand, manifested a very different temper, proving by the moderation of his language, the fairness of his views, and the simplicity of his distinctions, that he possessed every disposition to hear reason, a strong, innate desire to do justice, and an ingenuousness that was singularly indisposed to have recourse to sophism to maintain an argument; or to defend a prejudice.†   (source)
  • There is a well known, so-called sophism of the ancients consisting in this, that Achilles could never catch up with a tortoise he was following, in spite of the fact that he traveled ten times as fast as the tortoise.†   (source)
  • Isabel had not changed; her old passion for justice still abode within her; and now, in the very thick of her sense of her husband's blasphemous sophistry, it began to throb to a tune which for a moment promised him the victory.†   (source)
  • When the sophist would supplant, with the wild theories of his worldly wisdom, the positive mandates of inspiration, let him remember the expansion of his own feeble intellects, and pause—let him feel the wisdom of God in what is partially concealed. as well as that which is revealed; in short, let him substitute humility for pride of reason—let him have faith, and live!†   (source)
  • There may be sophistry in all this; but the condition of a slave confuses all principles of morality, and, in fact, renders the practice of them impossible.†   (source)
  • I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.†   (source)
  • There was a gleam of conscience in the shame and terror of this hasty action, which, in one short moment, tore the thin covering of sophistry from the cruel design, and laid it bare in all its meanness and heartless deformity.†   (source)
  • Catherine was far from saying to herself that this was an ingenious sophism; but she met the appeal none the less squarely.†   (source)
  • Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.†   (source)
  • He took an interest in me, and it is to him that I to-day owe it that I am a veritable man of letters, who knows Latin from the ~de Officiis~ of Cicero to the mortuology of the Celestine Fathers, and a barbarian neither in scholastics, nor in politics, nor in rhythmics, that sophism of sophisms.†   (source)
  • Conscience is the chaos of chimeras, of lusts, and of temptations; the furnace of dreams; the lair of ideas of which we are ashamed; it is the pandemonium of sophisms; it is the battlefield of the passions.†   (source)
  • You do not know that I am but repeating what I heard Hillel say in an argument he had one day in my presence with a sophist from Rome.†   (source)
  • Are they in harmony with the sympathies of Christ? or are they swayed and perverted by the sophistries of worldly policy?†   (source)
  • Those tokens which he had hitherto considered as proofs of a frightful peculiarity in her physical and moral system were now either forgotten, or, by the subtle sophistry of passion transmitted into a golden crown of enchantment, rendering Beatrice the more admirable by so much as she was the more unique.†   (source)
  • It seemed to him that he had clearly expressed his thoughts and feelings to the best of his capacity, and yet both of them, straightforward men and not fools, had said with one voice that he was comforting himself with sophistries.†   (source)
  • He took an interest in me, and it is to him that I to-day owe it that I am a veritable man of letters, who knows Latin from the ~de Officiis~ of Cicero to the mortuology of the Celestine Fathers, and a barbarian neither in scholastics, nor in politics, nor in rhythmics, that sophism of sophisms.†   (source)
  • Bar could not at once return to his inveiglements of the most enlightened and remarkable jury he had ever seen in that box, with whom, he could tell his learned friend, no shallow sophistry would go down, and no unhappily abused professional tact and skill prevail (this was the way he meant to begin with them); so he said he would go too, and would loiter to and fro near the house while his friend was inside.†   (source)
  • But by the side of and above the philosophers, there were the sophists, a venomous vegetation mingled with a healthy growth, hemlock in the virgin forest.†   (source)
  • Rank sophistry, pretty Mabel, and treason to the king, as well as dishonoring his commission and discrediting his name.†   (source)
  • The sophists and rhetoricians who thronged the public resorts of Rome, almost monopolizing the business of teaching her patrician youth, might have approved these sayings of Messala, for they were all in the popular vein; to the young Jew, however, they were new, and unlike the solemn style of discourse and conversation to which he was accustomed.†   (source)
  • …beauty, and, after having successively rejected the Queen of Golconda, the Princess of Trebizonde, the daughter of the Grand Khan of Tartary, etc., Labor and Clergy, Nobility and Merchandise, had come to rest upon the marble table of the Palais de Justice, and to utter, in the presence of the honest audience, as many sentences and maxims as could then be dispensed at the Faculty of Arts, at examinations, sophisms, determinances, figures, and acts, where the masters took their degrees.†   (source)
  • At times the conscience of the honest man resumed its breathing, so great was the discomfort of that air in which sophisms were intermingled with truths.†   (source)
  • A sign that theft and pillage are beginning to filter into doctrines and sophisms, in such a way as to lose somewhat of their ugliness, while communicating much of it to sophisms and doctrines.†   (source)
  • How many times had he risen to his feet in the combat, held fast to the rock, leaning against sophism, dragged in the dust, now getting the upper hand of his conscience, again overthrown by it!†   (source)
  • Yet the most subtle sophist cannot produce a juster simile.†   (source)
  • There is at this time a Parian philosopher residing in Athens, of whom I have heard; and I came to hear of him in this way:--I came across a man who has spent a world of money on the Sophists, Callias, the son of Hipponicus, and knowing that he had sons, I asked him: 'Callias,' I said, 'if your two sons were foals or calves, there would be no difficulty in finding some one to put over them; we should hire a trainer of horses, or a farmer probably, who would improve and perfect them in…†   (source)
  • He often makes prizes of humans who have given their lives for causes He thinks bad on the monstrously sophistical ground that the humans thought them good and were following the best they knew.†   (source)
  • Since I myself have been an inmate of a lunatic asylum, I cannot but notice that the sophistic tendencies of some of its inmates lean towards the errors of non causa and ignoratio elenche.†   (source)
  • But of the two triumphs, that of refuting a sophistical son and that of holding on a while longer to a state of being which, with all abatements, he enjoyed, Ralph deemed it no sin to hope the latter might be vouchsafed to Mr. Touchett.†   (source)
  • Or was she sophistically sensible, with a thrill of pleasure, that by adopting this course for getting rid of him she was ensuring a meeting with him, at any rate, once more?†   (source)
  • If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical — is false.†   (source)
  • Coulde no man, by twenty thousand
    Counterfeit the sophimes* of his art;  *sophistries, beguilements   (source)
    sophistries = invalid arguments that are seemingly believable and display ingenuity in reasoning
  • The brainsick words of sophists: Antisthenes.†   (source)
  • SOPHIST WALLOPS HAUGHTY HELEN SQUARE ON PROBOSCIS.†   (source)
  • —You remind me of Antisthenes, the professor said, a disciple of Gorgias, the sophist.†   (source)
  • —The leaning of sophists towards the bypaths of apocrypha is a constant quantity, John Eglinton detected.†   (source)
  • All it indicates, stripped of sophistry, is a somewhat childish effort to gain the approval of Englishmen—a belated efflorescence of the colonial spirit, often commingled with fashionable aspiration.†   (source)
  • Can any temptation have sophistry and delusion strong enough to persuade you to so simple a bargain?†   (source)
  • Ignorance will be the dupe of cunning, and passion the slave of sophistry and declamation.†   (source)
  • I trow ye study about some sophime:* *sophism But Solomon saith, every thing hath time.†   (source)
  • By means of this sophistry Sancho was made to endure hunger, and hunger so keen that in his heart he cursed the government, and even him who had given it to him; however, with his hunger and his conserve he undertook to deliver judgments that day, and the first thing that came before him was a question that was submitted to him by a stranger, in the presence of the majordomo and the other attendants, and it was in these words: "Senor, a large river separated two districts of one and…†   (source)
  • Hermotimus was next (I find it in my charta) To whom it did pass, where no sooner it was missing But with one Pyrrhus of Delos it learn'd to go a fishing; And thence did it enter the sophist of Greece.†   (source)
  • Sophistry may reply, that sovereigns are equal, and that a majority of the votes of the States will be a majority of confederated America.†   (source)
  • The latter part of Mr Western's behaviour had so strong an effect on the tender heart of Sophia, that it suggested a thought to her, which not all the sophistry of her politic aunt, nor all the menaces of her father, had ever once brought into her head.†   (source)
  • FNA1-@1 The sophistry which has been employed to show that this will tend to the destruction of the State governments, will, in its will, in its proper place, be fully detected.†   (source)
  • It would be mere sophistry to argue that it was meant to exclude them ABSOLUTELY from the imposition of taxes of the former kind, and to leave them at liberty to lay others SUBJECT TO THE CONTROL of the national legislature.†   (source)
  • If the road over which you will still have to pass should in some places appear to you tedious or irksome, you will recollect that you are in quest of information on a subject the most momentous which can engage the attention of a free people, that the field through which you have to travel is in itself spacious, and that the difficulties of the journey have been unnecessarily increased by the mazes with which sophistry has beset the way.†   (source)
  • …to the State Executives, to fill casual vacancies in the Senate, by temporary appointments; which not only invalidates the supposition, that the clause before considered could have been intended to confer that power upon the President of the United States, but proves that this supposition, destitute as it is even of the merit of plausibility, must have originated in an intention to deceive the people, too palpable to be obscured by sophistry, too atrocious to be palliated by hypocrisy.†   (source)
  • Happily for mankind, stupendous fabrics reared on the basis of liberty, which have flourished for ages, have, in a few glorious instances, refuted their gloomy sophisms.†   (source)
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