Buridan's bridge (section The sophism)
Buridan's Bridge (also known as Sophism 17) is described by Jean Buridan, one of the most famous and influential philosophers of the Late Middle Ages...
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For the ancient Greeks, “India" (Greek: Ινδία) referred to the polity situated east of Persia and south of the Himalayas (with the exception of Serica)...
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the "worse (or weaker) argument appear the better (or stronger)" (see Sophism), and (3) that one could not tell if the gods existed or not (see Agnosticism)...
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Ancient Greek philosophy (section Sophism)
were ultimately incorporated into the work of his student, Democritus. Sophism arose from the juxtaposition of physis (nature) and nomos (law). John Burnet...
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Frédéric Bastiat (redirect from Economic Sophisms)
adjust to changing conditions". Among his better-known works is Economic Sophisms, a series of essays (originally published in the Journal des économistes)...
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Relativism (section Sophism)
Relativism is a family of philosophical views which deny claims to objectivity within a particular domain and assert that valuations in that domain are...
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Sophistical Refutations (redirect from Sophisms (Aristotle))
Sophistical Refutations (Greek: Σοφιστικοὶ Ἔλεγχοι, romanized: Sophistikoi Elenchoi; Latin: De Sophisticis Elenchis) is a text in Aristotle's Organon in...
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deceptively persuasive. Deliberately specious reasoning can be seen as a form of sophism. The term comes from the late Middle English word meaning 'beautiful',...
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drama, Aristophanes presents a caricature of Socrates that leans towards sophism, ridiculing Socrates as an absurd atheist. Socrates in Clouds is interested...
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