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Re: Connotation of "Sophism and Sophistry"

wallacecollect — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:12:12 GMT

The Sophists are usually differentiated from the Prescocratic natural scientists such as Thales as well as from the Pythagoreans. Protagoras is reckoned to be

Connotation of "Sophism and Sophistry"

Kyle Victor Jose — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:40:15 GMT

I was told that Sophists was a group of Pre-socratic philosophers such as Thales, Anaximander, Pythagoras, etc. Then why are the logical fallacies the praxes

Re: Essay Question

wallacecollect — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:40:11 GMT

My hero in the Republic is Thrasymachus - he really tears Socrates to shreds, despite Plato's biased treatment [see Rep Book 1] ... ... sophists

Re: Protagoras the Sophist

tonguessy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 01:06:37 GMT

Michel Onfray in his "Les Sagesses Antiques" (2006) clearly says it: Plato's dictatorship has managed to give HIS deceitful impression of old Sophists as the

Protagoras the Sophist

edelagarza_12 — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:47:27 GMT

One does not need to go far to find out how the Sophists were viewed and are currently viewed. Type Sophist into any search engine on the internet and you are

Re: Hi friends,

Gary Geiser — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 04:01:50 GMT

Your boredom can't be helped. It's an effect of the disappearance of the social. Genuine reciprocity is gone. Now it's all just ambiance afforded by

Hi friends,

anusha suddana — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:31:26 GMT

Friends lets raise some topics and discuss.there are no posts and i am getting bored in this group. ok. SOPHISM is a great word let us be sophists :-)

Re: Something about Nothing

Tor Hershman — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:01:07 GMT

Moi's lyrics (Mostly satire and parody) are THE least ambiguous [Well, you may tie moi but exceed.....never!] of any. Have a look/see, hear/listen if'in ya

Re: Something about Nothing

Gary Geiser — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 02:29:27 GMT

There are facts that we share which are of questionable validity, but we are unaware of it. And these facts often serve to end theoretical discussion. But how

Re: Something about Nothing

Lechesis — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 22:18:00 GMT

It seems that some songwriters overcome Husserl & Derrida's ideas by creating phrases which are ambiguous to a first reading, but are in their construction,

Re: Something about Nothing

Gary Geiser — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:14:31 GMT

But don't forget that while Husserl posited a 'presence' afforded by our pre-reflective awareness of consciousness, Derrida later on has posited langauge over

Re: Something about Nothing

Lechesis — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 00:23:28 GMT

Thank You. I have been searching for the answer to this riddle for a lifetime. I am a first year philosophy student and gladly accept your argument. Namaste

Re: Something about Nothing

Gary Geiser — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:16:13 GMT

This is phenomenology. There is something "like" every experience we have, namely the absolute stream of consciousness, the 'feel' of experience. What IS "at

Something about Nothing

Lechesis — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:24:11 GMT

If I think of Nothing, then how is it possible for nothing to exist. If I have thought of it, then at least to me there IS nothing rather than nothing being

Re: hi

Gary Geiser — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 02:42:37 GMT

Hi, There's a filter. So if you send something in, it's got a small chance of getting through. I suppose people just gave up. But what is Sophism. It's