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Sophistry and Law: The Antilogical Pattern of Judicial Debate [PDF]
Humanities, 2022 This essay aims to reveal the relationship between sophistry and law in a twofold direction: on one side, how the development of ancient Greek law influenced sophistry’s production, and on the other, how and to what extent the knowledge and skills ...
Stefania Giombini
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The Metaphysics of Sophistry: Protagoras, Nāgārjuna, Antilogos
Humanities, 2022 There is no category of thought more deliberately or explicitly relegated to a subordinate role in Plato’s dialogues than Sophists and sophistry. It is due to Plato’s influence that terms “sophist” and “sophistry” handed down to us have unilaterally ...
Robin Reames
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Illusory Arguments by Artificial Agents: Pernicious Legacy of the Sophists
HumanitiesTo diagnose someone’s reasoning today as “sophistry” is to say that this reasoning is at once persuasive (at least to a significant degree) and logically invalid.
Micah H. Clark, Selmer Bringsjord
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Role of the Courts in Ensuring Free and Fair Elections in Kenya : A Tale of Fifty-Six Years of Legal Sophistry and Intellectual Dishonesty [PDF]
, 2021 Although the Judiciary has made many decisions that are consistent with the ideal of free and fair elections in the last fifty-six years, its dominant approach to electoral dispute resolution generally entails making superficially sound but disingenuous ...
Thiankolu , Muthomi
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Sophistry, Rhetoric and Politics
Filosofija. Sociologija, 2022 The article aims to shed light on the connection between rhetoric and politics, and its dissemination in the sophistic and philosophical tradition. The argumentation is based on the conceptions of two contemporary philosophers – Barbara Cassin and Hans Blumenberg, who appear as the protagonists of positions according to which rhetoric takes up a ...
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Rhétorique et psychologie dans l'œuvre d'Alcidamas d'Élée
Methodos, 2019 This paper argues that Alcidamas should be seen as a thinker of the ψυχή instead of the mere psychagogical potential of the λόγος. The development of an interesting and complex reflection on the logical and syntactic organization of the speech on one ...
Julie Tramonte
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, 2021 The road from bipolar fuzzy sets to equilibrium-based mathematical abstraction is surveyed. A continuing historical debate on bipolarity and isomorphism is outlined. Related literatures are critically reviewed to counter plagiarism, distortion, renaming,
Zhang, Wen-Ran, Wen-Ran Zhang
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Filozofija i Društvo, 2009 The teachability of virtue is an issue on which were crossed swords during the struggle for supremacy between two basic principles of ancient Greek spirit - sophistry and ancient Greek ethics. Two great representatives of these opposite principles, Plato
Nikitović Aleksandar
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Sophistry in the writings of Miguel De Unamuno: between politics and pedagogy [PDF]
Hypothekai, 2023 The article explores the legacy of Miguel de Unamuno, one of the most prominent Spanish intellectuals of the late 19th and ear-ly 20th centuries. Unamuno was known not only as a writer, but also as a philosopher, philologist, journalist, playwright ...
Astine OVSEPYAN
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