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Fatalism and Future Contingents [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In this paper I address issues related to the problem of future contingents and the metaphysical doctrine of fatalism. Two classical responses to the problem of future contingents are the third truth value view and the all-false view.
Fisher J. M.   +7 more
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Polytropic Socrates’ Implicit Defence of Philosophy

open access: yesPolitikon, 2019
This article offers an interpretation of Plato’s Lesser Hippias, containing several original claims. First, it contends that the dialogue takes place in front of an unnamed audience composed of Socrates’ students and the dialogue is therefore for their ...
Samantha Trudeau
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Development of the “literary evolution” concept by Yuri Tynyanov in the works of Sergei Averintsev

open access: yesEnthymema, 2022
Since the concept of “literary evolution” proposed by Yuri Tynyanov could not be applied to the late Soviet official literature, Sergei Averintsev using this concept examined the relationship between philosophy, sophistry, rhetorics and everyday ...
Alexander Markov
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Enhancing the research on sophistry in the renaissance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
This contribution introduces the proceedings of the international conference The Sophistic Renaissance: Authors, Texts, Interpretationsheld in Veniceon September 26th, 2016 as part of my Marie Skłodowska-Curie project Sperone Speroni (1500-1588) and the ...
Katinis, Teodoro
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Lost rhetoric found. Non-extant rhetorical handbooks of rhetoricians and sophists from the pre-P~platonic time until late Hellenism as literary sources in Suda

open access: yesÁgora, 2011
This article touches an area of the history and technical disposition of rhetoric, which has not been considered a subject or research on rhetoric so far.
Fee-Alexandra Haase
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Illusory Arguments by Artificial Agents: Pernicious Legacy of the Sophists

open access: yesHumanities
To 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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Badiou’s Reading of Saint Paul [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2020
There has been a renewed interest in reading Saint Paul from different aspects by contemporary political theology and philosophy. However, being encountered with the sickness of contemporary philosophy and regarding it as sophistry, Badiou turns to Paul ...
Parisa Shakourzadeh, Ali Naqi Baqershahi
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On Gorgias’ Particular Demonstration

open access: yesPeitho, 2013
The label idios apodeixis/logos «particular (personal, original) demonstration or argument» of Gorgias is known to us only from the third section of the little work attributed to Aristotle under the title De Melisso, Xenophane, Gorgia.
Marian Wesoły
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La visée d’une certaine éloquence, une médiation propice à l’apprentissage de la philosophie en classe de terminale ?

open access: yesRecherches & Travaux, 2021
This paper will examine the ambiguous relationships of the French philosophy teaching in high school with eloquence. It considers how rhetoric in that context is used as a foil in order to bring students to identify the specific features of the ...
Anne-Claire Husser
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The Science of Philosophy: Discourse and Deception in Plato’s Sophist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
At 252e1 to 253c9 in Plato’s Sophist, the Eleatic Visitor explains why philosophy is a science. Like the art of grammar, philosophical knowledge corresponds to a generic structure of discrete kinds and is acquired by systematic analysis of how these ...
Olof, Pettersson
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