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Plato's Sophistry

Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, 1977
M. A. Stewart, Rosamund Kent Sprague
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Sophistry in medicine: Lessons from the epidural space

Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, 2005
Christopher M BernardS
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Psychic Sophistry

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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Sophistry About Conventions

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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Sophistry and illusion

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 Sophistry of Heuristics

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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Science and Sophistry

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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