Crossword-Solution: SOPHISTS
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Clever, specious reasoners | 1 answer |
| Fallacious reasoners | 1 answer |
| Protagoras and Gorgias, notably | 1 answer |
| Superficial reasoners | 1 answer |
| Specious reasoners | 2 answers |
| Scholarly sorts | 4 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SOPHISTS (5)
The "Chalcedonian giant," Thrasymachus, of whom we have already heard in the Phaedrus, is the personification of the Sophists, according to Plato's conception of them, in some of their worst characteristics.
Socrates: Better to speak too simply, than in a manner in which part or all of your audience gets lost, like the Sophists.
However, we must now contrast the false repentance of the sophists with true repentance, in order that both may be the better understood.
Why do the very persons, who laid down this principle, now refuse to be guided by it? Why do the Says, the Comtes, the Hennequins, and others--after having said that property is born of labor--seek to fix it by occupation and prescription? But let us leave these sophists to their contradictions and blindness.
The office of president was exercised by the venerable præfect of the East, a _second_ Sallust, 60 whose virtues conciliated the esteem of Greek sophists, and of Christian bishops.
Quotes with SOPHISTS (3)
I examined the poets, and I look on them as people whose talent overawes both themselves and others, people who present themselves as wise men and are taken as such, when they are nothing of the sort. From poets, I moved to artists. No one was more ignorant about the arts than I; no one was more convinced that artists possessed really beautiful secrets. However, I noticed that their condition was no better than that of the poets and that both of them have the same misconcepti…
In the first case it emerges that the evidence that might refute a theory can often be unearthed only with the help of an incompatible alternative: the advice (which goes back to Newton and which is still popular today) to use alternatives only when refutations have already discredited the orthodox theory puts the cart before the horse. Also, some of the most important formal properties of a theory are found by contrast, and not by analysis. A scientist who wishes to maximize…
The most striking difference between the ancient and modern sophists is that the ancients were satisfied with a passing victory of the argument at the expense of truth, whereas the moderns want a more lasting victory at the expense of reality. In other words, one destroyed the dignity of human thought whereas the others destroy the dignity of human action. The old manipulators of logic were the concern of the philosopher, whereas the modern manipulators of facts stand in the …
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Appears in: Chronicle, NYT, WP.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1976–2011).