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New Literary History, 1985
Abstract The sophists are once again among us. Like Socrates, we need a “true rhetoric.” That is, we need a form of discourse about literature that concerns itself with real things of serious human importance and that reveres, in so doing, the recently despised notions of truth, objectivity, even of validity in argument, clarity in ...
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Abstract The sophists are once again among us. Like Socrates, we need a “true rhetoric.” That is, we need a form of discourse about literature that concerns itself with real things of serious human importance and that reveres, in so doing, the recently despised notions of truth, objectivity, even of validity in argument, clarity in ...
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Think, 2002
This article explains the various techniques that psychics can use to convince both their clients and themselves that they really do have occult powers. Tony Youens, the author, regularly demonstrates these techniques, and usually succeeds in convincing his audience of his amazing psychic abilities before he reveals all. On one recent TV show, a person
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This article explains the various techniques that psychics can use to convince both their clients and themselves that they really do have occult powers. Tony Youens, the author, regularly demonstrates these techniques, and usually succeeds in convincing his audience of his amazing psychic abilities before he reveals all. On one recent TV show, a person
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Rhetoric, Sophistry, Pragmatism
MLN, 1995The anti-sceptical relativism and self-conscious rhetoric of the pragmatist tradition, which began with the Older Sophists of Ancient Greece and developed through an American tradition including William James and John Dewey has attracted new attention in the context of late twentieth-century postmodernist thought. At the same time there has been a more
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Nature, 1994
The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion and the Search for God. By Kitty Ferguson. Bantam: 1994. Pp. 308. £16.99.
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The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion and the Search for God. By Kitty Ferguson. Bantam: 1994. Pp. 308. £16.99.
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2004
In an essay entitled ‘Hegel and the Greeks’, Heidegger articulates the following claim: ‘It is Hegel’, he says, ‘who, for the first time, thinks the philosophy of the Greeks as a whole and thinks this whole philosophically’ (HG, 324). Hegel is able to do this, Heidegger argues, because he thought history in such a way that it is determined as ...
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In an essay entitled ‘Hegel and the Greeks’, Heidegger articulates the following claim: ‘It is Hegel’, he says, ‘who, for the first time, thinks the philosophy of the Greeks as a whole and thinks this whole philosophically’ (HG, 324). Hegel is able to do this, Heidegger argues, because he thought history in such a way that it is determined as ...
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Philosophy, Sophistry, Antiphilosophy
2015Alain Badiou's work in philosophy, though daunting, has gained a receptive and steadily growing Anglophone readership. What is not well known is the extent to which Badiou's positions, vis-à-vis ontology, ethics, politics and the very meaning of philosophy, were hammered out in dispute with the late Jean-François Lyotard. Matthew R.
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2001
AbstractIn this chapter, Hankinson considers the treatment of causation and explanation in two important strands of Ancient Greek thought: rational medicine and the sophistic movement. The Hippocratic treatises of the fifth century bc represent a movement in Greek medical practice away from traditional types of explanation of disease in favour of a ...
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AbstractIn this chapter, Hankinson considers the treatment of causation and explanation in two important strands of Ancient Greek thought: rational medicine and the sophistic movement. The Hippocratic treatises of the fifth century bc represent a movement in Greek medical practice away from traditional types of explanation of disease in favour of a ...
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2004
In the introductory chapter of his first major publication, Discours, figure, Lyotard brings up the example of sophistry. Is it not the case, he asks, that the very possibility of truth is destroyed by the claim that the ‘figural’ is irreducibly present in all ‘discourse’, all language?
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In the introductory chapter of his first major publication, Discours, figure, Lyotard brings up the example of sophistry. Is it not the case, he asks, that the very possibility of truth is destroyed by the claim that the ‘figural’ is irreducibly present in all ‘discourse’, all language?
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MLN, 1985
In the article entitled "Philosophy" within the Encyclopedia, Diderot returns to the Ancients and links systematic thought to the displacement of wisdom into sophistry. In tracing the growth of philosophy and its achievements, he remarks that if the Ancients could not carry out their ideal of wisdom, at least they had the glory of having conceived of ...
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In the article entitled "Philosophy" within the Encyclopedia, Diderot returns to the Ancients and links systematic thought to the displacement of wisdom into sophistry. In tracing the growth of philosophy and its achievements, he remarks that if the Ancients could not carry out their ideal of wisdom, at least they had the glory of having conceived of ...
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Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 1977
M. A. Stewart, Rosamund Kent Sprague
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M. A. Stewart, Rosamund Kent Sprague
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