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Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 1996 It is amusing to see a review that complains of a lack of sophistication in the treatment of data or development of a theory in a paper submitted for publication. “Sophistication” apparently is something good; something that enhances the value of a paper. These kinds of reviews usually come from recent Ph.D.s, often from Cambridge or La Jolla.
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, 2023 The Sophists explored language with a truly remarkable breadth of perspective and competence. The aim of the present paper is to offer an overview of their investigations.
Mauro Bonazzi
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Plato’s Socrates, Sophistic Antithesis and Scepticism
Plato, 2019 In some Platonic dialogues Socrates apparently shares significant characteristics with contemporary sophists, especially a technique of antithetical argumentation.
Dougal Blyth
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Dialektik als Logik des Scheins. Zu Kants Lektüre von Michael Piccarts Isagoge
Кантовский сборник, 2022 An unrecognised copy (1665) in Kant’s private library of Michael Piccart’s Isagoge (1605), an introduction to the system of Aristotelian philosophy together with Kant’s own remarks on this author (Refl 4160, AA 17, p.
Martin Walter
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HumanitiesThe coherence and indeed the reality of the sophists as a philosophical school or movement has been contested and debated in modern scholarship, with inconclusive results.
Eric MacPhail
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Rush Rhees on Set Theory, the Sophists and Wittgenstein
, 2022 Rush Rhees, one of Wittgenstein’s three trustees, lectured on Plato and the Presocratics for two decades. In his lecture notes on the Sophists, Rhees briefly mentions Wittgenstein’s views on set theory and claims that mathematicians have responded to ...
Solin, Kim,
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The Normative Turn: Back to Hobhouse?
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Supporters of a recently announced normative turn in sociology acknowledge that what they recommend is by no means entirely new. However, they have given little attention to an early precursor: the British sociologist Leonard Hobhouse. He focussed on the role of the normative in social life and insisted that sociology could, and must, play an ...
Martyn Hammersley
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Bioethics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article focuses on the question of how to understand the role and use of ethical theories in bioethics. Work in bioethics often involves uses of ethical theory, but methodological developments such as the empirical turn and the growing insights into the plurality and contextuality of moral considerations challenge a traditional view of ...
Anne‐Marie Søndergaard Christensen
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The ideas of the Sophists in Plato's dialogues [PDF]
, 2018 Aiming, in contrast to the traditional attitude, to arrive at general distinction of the role of the Sophists and the Sophistic Movement, this research concentrates on the individual Sophists rather than Socrates in five of Plato's dialogues: the ...
Chang, K. -C.
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, 2017 This chapter deals with the Sophists, a new kind of professional intellectual and teacher in ancient Greece who debated fundamental questions concerning human life, and particularly morality and politics.
Peter Nicholson
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