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Socrates and the Sophists: Reconsidering the History of Criticisms of the Sophists
Humanities, 2022 To examine the sophists and their legacy, it is necessary to reconsider the relation between Socrates and the sophists. The trial of Socrates in 399 BCE seems to have changed people’s attitudes towards and conceptions of the sophists drastically, because
Noburu Notomi
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Truth and falsehood for non-representationalists: Gorgias on the normativity of language [PDF]
Revista de Filosofia Antiga, 2017 Sophists and rhetoricians like Gorgias are often accused of disregarding truth and rationality: their speeches seem to aim only at effective persuasion, and be constrained by nothing but persuasiveness itself.
Juan Pablo Bermúdez
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The Cosmopolitanism of the Early Sophists: The Case of Hippias and Antiphon
Humanities, 2023 An investigation of the emergence of the notion of ‘Cosmopolitanism’ in 5th century Greece. The author focusses on the early sophists, and specifically on Antiphon and Hippias.
Giovanni Giorgini
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Neural Computation, 2021 Active inference offers a first principle account of sentient behavior, from which special and important cases—for example, reinforcement learning, active learning, Bayes optimal inference, Bayes optimal design—can be derived. Active inference finesses the exploitation-exploration dilemma in relation to prior preferences by placing information gain on
Karl J. Friston +4 more
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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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Socrates’ kατάβασις and the Sophistic Shades: Education and Democracy
Plato, 2023 This article addresses the unusually elaborate dramatic context in Plato’s Protagoras and effect of sophistry on democratic Athens. Because Socrates evokes Odysseus’ κατάβασις in the Odyssey to describe the sophists in Callias’ house (314c-316b), I ...
Christine Rojcewicz
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RUDN Journal of Philosophy, 2021 The article considers the logical and philosophical doctrine of sophists, which, according to some modern researchers, was more philosophical than their ancient critics recognized. A comparison of the provisions of Aristotle's hermeneutics with preserved
Ilya Dvorkin
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Alētheia in Gorgias of Leontini. An Excerpt from the History of Truth
Peitho, 2022 It is often assumed that the concept of alētheia, or ‘truth’, in Gorgias of Leontini belongs to the art of rhetoric. Along these lines, it is usually understood as an aesthetic concept or even a mere ‘adornment’ of speech.
Lars Leteen
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Examination of Aristotle’s Critiques of Heraclitus’ Cosmology on Criticisms of Plato and Sophists [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2014 Aristotle is one of the important sources for studying pre-Platonic philosophers, among whom Heraclitus was the subject of Aristotle’s main focus. His focus on Heraclitus was most importantly for the reason that Heraclitus was, as Plato states, the ...
Saeed Darvishy, Gholamreza Zakiany
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Antilogies in Ancient Athens: An Inventory and Appraisal
Humanities, 2023 Antilogies, or pairs of symmetrically opposed speeches or arguments, were generally ignored by Plato, Isocrates, Aristotle, Cicero, and Diogenes Laertius, and, later, by Eduard Norden, Hermann Diels, and most modern scholars of antiquity.
Livio Rossetti
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