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| Sophism: Sophism is a deceptive argument or fallacious reasoning used to deceive or persuade, often emphasizing rhetorical skill over truth. It's criticized in philosophy for its disregard of objective truth. See also Sophists, Rhetoric, Truth, Discourse, Argumentation, Objectivity._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Plato on Sophism - Dictionary of Arguments
Bubner I 37 DialecticVsRhetoric/Plato/Bubner: the knowledge of the method makes the philosopher a free man, while the action-oriented speaker is entangled in the deception of the words. (VsSophists). >Sophists/Plato. I 38 Sophism/AristotleVsPlato: uses the same reasons to plead the incompleteness of dialectic, precisely because it has to do with the intersubjective speech practise. I 42 PlatoVsSophists: unmethodic. Bubner I 98 Sophism/Plato/Bubner: also the sophist cannot easily be disproved by empirical comparison. Its speeches must be examined to see if its terms match. ((s)> Coherence theory/Plato)._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Bu I R. Bubner Antike Themen und ihre moderne Verwandlung Frankfurt 1992 |
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