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Sophistry and Law: The Antilogical Pattern of Judicial Debate

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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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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Hippias’s “Collection” — a handbook for a man of wisdom [PDF]

Hypothekai, 2021
Despite the obvious revival of interest in the First Sophistry in recent decades, Hippias of Elis is poorly considered in the context of the history of ancient education.
Roman Svetlov
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Polytropic Socrates’ Implicit Defence of Philosophy

Politikon, 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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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

Ágora, 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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The Philosophical Basis of the method of antilogic [PDF]

, 2019
The paper is devoted to the sophistic method of "two-fold arguments" (antilogic). The traditional understanding of antilogic understood as an expression of agonistic and eristic tendencies of the sophists has been in recent decades, under the influence ...
Nerczuk, Zbigniew
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Development of the “literary evolution” concept by Yuri Tynyanov in the works of Sergei Averintsev

Enthymema, 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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Illusory Arguments by Artificial Agents: Pernicious Legacy of the Sophists

Humanities
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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On Gorgias’ Particular Demonstration

Peitho, 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 ?

Recherches & 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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