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their native Roman history. In
modern usage,
sophism, sophist, and
sophistry are used disparagingly. A
sophism, or sophistry, is a
fallacious argument, especially...
- 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...
-
adjust to
changing conditions".
Among his better-known
works is
Economic Sophisms, a
series of
essays (originally
published in the
Journal des économistes)...
- For the
ancient Gr****s, “India" (Gr****: Ινδία)
referred to the
polity situated east of
Persia and
south of the
Himalayas (with the
exception of Serica)...
- were
ultimately incorporated into the work of his student, Democritus.
Sophism arose from the
juxtaposition of
physis (nature) and
nomos (law). John Burnet...
- 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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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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Relativism is a
family of
philosophical views which deny
claims to
objectivity within a
particular domain and ****ert that
valuations in that
domain are...
- and
believed in
logical reasoning rejecting most of Mu'tazila
claims as
sophism and absurd. Ibn Hazm, also
scrutinised hadith corpus more severely. He...
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article Scholarly method Scientific community Scientific method Seminar Sophism "Academy". Rae (in Spanish). "academe".
Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed...
