Fraud is the ready minister of injustice; and whilst the currency of false pretence and sophistic reasoning was expedient to their designs, they were under no necessity of drawing upon me to furnish them with that coin.
In the history of the origins of logic the sophistic age is simply the age of the free play of thought in which men were aware that in a sense anything can be debated and not yet aware of the sense in which all things cannot be so.
Among the pioneers of the sophistic age Socrates stands apart.
Sophistic rhetoric, from its very nature and function, was bound to reflect the religious spirit of the age, in all its confusion.
The influence of the sophistic discipline in education will be felt in the schools of Gaul, when Visigoth and Burgundian will be preparing to assume the heritage of the falling Empire.
Already in Juvenal's life the brilliant sophistic movement had set in which was destined to carry the literary charm of Hellenism throughout the West.
John Davidson was a thoroughgoing materialist, and the other members of the school, made sceptic by their admiration for the sophistic philosophy of Wilde, followed Davidson in his views.
Simonides introduced the practice, which had something shocking in it to Greek taste, and which Plato especially censures as sophistic and illiberal in his Protagoras.
Thus the sophistic position that man is for man the measure of all things is irrefutable.
It exhibits, after all allowance for peculiar Greek sentiments, the rhetorical development of a sophistic thesis.
Sophocles was the first to give its full value to dramatic casuistry, to introduce sophistic altercations, and to set forth all that could be well said in support of a poor argument.
Sophistic is the shadow or counterfeit of law-giving: Rhetoric, of judging or adjudicating.
The last declaration ascribed to Anytus, coupled with the last speech of Sokrates in the dialogue, show us that Plato conceives the anti-Sophistic antipathy as being anti-Sokratic also, in its natural consequences.
As the Sophistic theory of truth destroys the objectivity of truth, so the doctrine that virtue is the pleasure of the individual destroys the objectivity of the good.
This, as I explained in the lecture on Socrates, gets rid of the objectionable results of the Sophistic identification of knowledge with perception.
This consequence of the Sophistic principles was drawn both by many of the Sophists themselves, and later by the Cyrenaics.
But the principle is equally objectionable because, like the Sophistic theory, it founds morality upon mere feeling, instead of upon reason, and because it places the end of morality outside morality itself.
But though Socrates is thus a restorer of faith, we must not imagine that his thought is therefore a mere retrogression to the intellectual condition of pre-Sophistic times.
But the Sophistic theory places the end of morality outside morality.
He {221} would have found it identical in principle with the Sophistic doctrine that pleasure is the end of virtue.
The sophistic tyrants of Paris are loud in their declamations against the departed regal tyrants who in former ages have vexed the world.
When the peasants give you back that coin of sophistic reason on which you have set your image and superscription, you cry it down as base money, and tell them you will pay for the future with French guards and dragoons and hussars.
Sophistic philosophy sunk to that empty technicality which Plato in his Phaedrus, on account of its want of character, subjects to so rigid a criticism.
The Relation of the Sophistic Philosophy to the Anaxagorean Principle 43 2.
Upon this newly conquered field the Sophistic philosophy now began its gambols, and with childish wantonness delighted itself in setting at work this power, and in destroying, by means of a subjective dialectic, all objective determinations.
That which is true in the Sophistic philosophy is the truth of the subjectivity, of the self-consciousness, i.
The philosophizing of Socrates was limited and restricted by his opposition, partly to the preceding, and partly to the Sophistic philosophy.
The Sophistic philosophy is, theoretically, what the whole Athenian life during the Peloponnesian war was practically.
With no people before or since has rhetoric enjoyed so commanding an influence as with the Greeks, and with none also has the sophistic art produced such great and such pernicious effects.
However, by the time she reappeared in the sitting-room he had explained himself to himself with sophistic satisfaction.
Would you want every one to accept that sophistic rot?
These ideas he propounded with sophistic casuistry, unmistakably according to the method of the Polish Rabbinical school.
Analytics, rhetoric is finally regarded as a compound of analytic science and of morals, while it is like dialectical and sophistic arguments (i.
Where are we to find a clear line of distinction between the matter of dialectic debate (gymnastic or testing) on the one hand, and the matter of debate sophistic or litigious, on the other?
Plato came near the truth when he declared that Sophistic was busied about Non-Ens; for the debates of the Sophists turn principally upon Accidents or Concomitants, such as, Whether musical and literary be the same or different?
Both demonstrations were false and unsuccessful; yet that of Hippokrates was not sophistic or eristic, because he kept within the sphere of geometry; while that of Bryson was so, because it travelled out of geometry.
Aristotle thus draws a broad and marked line between Dialectic on the one hand, and Eristic or Sophistic on the other; and he treats the whole important doctrine of Logical Fallacies as coming under this latter department.
Whoever reads the Sixth Book of the Topica, wherein Aristotle indicates to the questioner Loci for impugning a definition, will see how little this definition of the Sophistic Syllogism will stand such attacks.
Philetas wore himself to a shadow by striving to solve the sophistic riddle of the "Liar.
The Sophistic culture has brought it to pass that one's understanding no longer stands still before anything, and the Skeptical, that his heart is no longer moved by anything.
Then the Sophistic culture was spreading, and Greece made a pastime of what had hitherto been to her a monstrously serious matter.
The same purgation of the heart was now achieved in the Skeptical age, as the understanding had succeeded in establishing in the Sophistic age.
So the Sophistic understanding too had so far become master over the dominant, ancient powers that they now needed only to be driven out of the heart, in which they dwelt unmolested, to have at last no part at all left in man.
Saturn was identified with the Greek god Kronos, and Julian uses the Greek word for the festival in order to avoid, according to sophistic etiquette, a Latin name.
Another sophistic element in his style is the use of commonplaces, literary allusions that had passed into the sophistic language and can be found in all the writers of reminiscence Greek in his day.
What they had, perhaps, acquired from the sophistic movement was a touch of effrontery.
A cynic or a hypocrite trained in a sophistic school might offer occasional help with the theory.
And the sophist and orator are in the same case; although you admire rhetoric and despise sophistic, whereas sophistic is really the higher of the two.
The art of dressing up is the sham or simulation of gymnastic, the art of cookery, of medicine; rhetoric is the simulation of justice, and sophistic of legislation.
Mardonius; it was a Sophistic mannerism to use such a periphrasis instead of giving the name directly; see vol.
