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Aristide citateur, exégète, commentateur et critique dans le Discours égyptien (or. 36)

Kentron, 2014
The Egyptian Discourse, written by the Greek sophist Ælius Aristides, presents itself as a little scientific treatise, in which the author announces he will throw light on an issue that has already been debated upon time and again:
Fabrice Robert
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The old linguistic problem of 'reference' in a modern reading of Plato's Sophist [PDF]

This paper is about interpreting the aim of Plato's Sophist in a linguistic framework and arguing that in its attempt at resolving the conundrum of what the true meaning and essence of the word "sophist" could be, it resembles a number of themes ...
Ehsani, Sepehr
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A Gift from the Gods [PDF]

, 2019
While much attention has been paid to the role of divine inspiration in the case of Socrates within Plato’s early and middle period dialogues, this paper examines Plato’s late period works and argues that despite the drastic changes in methodology found ...
Larkin, Daniel
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The formation of objects in the group matrix: Reflections on creative therapy with clay [PDF]

, 1998
In this article describes an experimental group experience where five people worked in silence for 20 minutes around a 2 ft square slate using clay as a medium for communication as part of a creative therapy session on an inpatient psychiatric ward.
Haigh, R., Winship, G.
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“A Practice of Fairness”: Social Equity Budgeting in Freedom City

Public Administration, Volume 103, Issue 4, Page 1022-1037, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Social justice is often theorized as fairness and expressed in equity as part of public administration and associated budgeting practices. Whereas much literature contrasted deontological positions, emphasizing a procedural justice with fairness based on rules, with consequentialist theory that emphasizes a distributional justice based on ...
Laurence Ferry, Thomas Ahrens
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Is the sensible an illusion? The revisited ontology of the Sophist

Aufklärung, 2014
In this paper we argue that, in the Sophist, Plato provides the reader some elements about a revision of his ontology behind the discussion about the nature of non-being.
Luca Pitteloud
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Is Critias a Sophist?

Humanities
The coherence and indeed the reality of the sophists as a philosophical school or movement has been contested and debated in modern scholarship, with inconclusive results.
Eric MacPhail
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The soul of sophistry: Plato’s “Sophist” 226a9–231b9 revisited [PDF]

, 2007
This paper argues that the so-called 6th definition of the sophist found in the outer part of Plato's "Sophist" is a methodological passage meant to point out how the sophist is to be pursued properly if he is to be distinguished from the ...
Larsen, Jens Kristian
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Speaking the Truth: Supporting Authentic Advocacy with Professional Identity Formation [PDF]

, 2020
When law students are asked to articulate legal rules in a persuasive communication such as a brief, they may experience internal tension. Their version of the rule, as framed to benefit a particular client’s position, may be different from the way they ...
Webb, Laura A.
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The Moral Force of Guidelines: How Surgeons Use Evidence‐Based Medicine to Curb Their Interventionism

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 47, Issue 8, November 2025.
ABSTRACT The epistemology of evidence‐based medicine (EBM) is said to clash with the culture of surgery: EBM demands contemplation, whereas surgeons prize decisive, and even heroic, action. How, then, have surgeons come to embrace EBM? To answer this question, I analysed evidence‐based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) and interviewed 15 attending ...
Clay Davis
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