A comment was banned for the use of the word sophistic?. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Comment Quality:] Reference
With the movement in Greek thought which is generally known as sophistic. From Wordnik.com. [Atheism in Pagan Antiquity] Reference
Would you want every one to accept that sophistic rot?. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
It seems a bit sophistic in the modern sense of the word. From Wordnik.com. [Can We Talk of Liberal Hypocrisy? - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState] Reference
"Hardly, except for the glint of wisdom in the sophistic eye.". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
They accuse us of seeking our therapeutic in a sophistic xenophobia. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Puddles Has Problems] Reference
This is unacceptable, even to the most primitive, and sophistic minds. From Wordnik.com. [Impeach Condi?] Reference
Donald M the boohoohoo school of sophistic philosophy …all is suffering. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Design and String Theory - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
You and I both know, I reached into that sophistic bag that could go on forever. From Wordnik.com. [Release the Crowley/Gates tapes. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState] Reference
What he has in its place is a remarkable type of unintentionally sophistic logic. From Wordnik.com. [The Mother’s role in India spanning half a century] Reference
In short, this is using life-cycle analysis in an extremely sophistic and simplistic way. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “Walking to the Shops ‘Damages Planet More Than Going By Car’”:] Reference
When we argue, you don't have to worry about my engaging in any sort of sophistic subtlety. From Wordnik.com. [Dick Morris Butchers Facts To Slime Hillary] Reference
And so Plato was in a sense not wrong in ranking sophistic as dealing with that which is not. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
You can spin your little sophistic logic-circles, David, about whether you're tolerant or intolerant. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Let's see how Mr. Obama's Harvard Law School degree will help him justify that sophistic argumentation. From Wordnik.com. [John Brown: Americans Are Not Oxymorons: Reflections On President Obama's Afghanistan Plans] Reference
I did policy, of course, because I was more interested in facts and logic than in sophistic demagoguery. From Wordnik.com. [McCain "needs to make an opponent an enemy in his mind to kind of get up for this. He personalizes conflict..."] Reference
They should also be aware that the core of philosophistication is sophistic. posted by Hal Duncan | 8: 44 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference
More than anything else, this illustrates the peril of going on the teevee with sophistic lying tools unarmed. From Wordnik.com. [Female Obama Adviser: Hillary's Rhetoric Is "Insulting" To Women] Reference
LET us now discuss sophistic refutations, i.e. what appear to be refutations but are really fallacies instead. From Wordnik.com. [On Sophistical Refutations] Reference
It would impossible in this little space (and my time) to even begin to counter Mr. Kato's sophistic arguments. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Hour Roundup] Reference
For Pickstock, Scotus is something of a bête noir, who reintroduces sophistic thinking into the medieval West. From Wordnik.com. [Mystical Theology and the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy] Reference
However, by the time she reappeared in the sitting-room he had explained himself to himself with sophistic satisfaction. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Dialectic is merely critical where philosophy claims to know, and sophistic is what appears to be philosophy but is not. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
But that would mean cable news was all about serious journalism, as opposed to the aforementioned sophistic taint flinging. From Wordnik.com. [Bob Cesca: Why the Media Taint-Mongers are Continuing to Wrongfully Accuse Obama] Reference
This seems to me to have been unnecessary and rather sophistic except to achieve the results desired in locking up this defendant. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Not the Best Way to Inspire Confidence] Reference
Claudius follows this with a sophistic argument -- "But you must know your father lost a father" -- which functions as a licentia. From Wordnik.com. [Modality and Hamlet] Reference
This seems to me to have been unnecessary and rather sophistic (except to achieve the results desired in locking up this defendant). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Not the Best Way to Inspire Confidence] Reference
I try very hard to be civil and I still think EV was wrong to delete one of my early posts because I called an argument “sophistic”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Comment Quality:] Reference
All of these arguments about “arming everyone” and “if everyone had guns it would be worse” are absolutely specious and sophistic. From Wordnik.com. [Policy, Understanding, And VT « Lean Left] Reference
It'll be nice to see Andre Schlagel (or however he wants to be called), and can't wait to wax sophistic about the TELCOMM industry with fellow party goers. From Wordnik.com. [joegood Diary Entry] Reference
The glitz and glamor of campaign politics and sophistic theater is enough to get Matthews jiggling in his seat, throwing reason and serious journalism out the window. From Wordnik.com. [Ben Cohen: Would The Real Chris Matthews Please Stand Up?] Reference
Having found Fei in his memorial twisting so many beguiling contentions and showing his sophistic ability to the utmost, thy servant is afraid lest Your Majesty should be. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Han Fei Tzu] Reference
Among the artists featured is Philippe Geluck, whose "Le Chat" -- a suit-wearing cat -- offers observations on life with convoluted and sophistic (but often insightful) comments. From Wordnik.com. [Comic Crazy in Belgium] Reference
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