A understated, tricky, outwardly plausible, but most often
a fallacious method of reasoning that utilizes rhetorical theory cannons to
persuade, usually, an ignorant audience.
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Sophism
... efforts of Plato, Sophism still remains with us and it should be noted that
Plato
in his attack of the Sophists was using the major tool of Sophism, rhetoric. ...
Rhetoric and Sophism
Rules
Dr. Richard D. Johnson (Sheehan), Sophist. Professor of Rhetoric and
Writing Director of Professional Writing and Internships. ...
Colin&Jonikka's
Rhetoric Links
... Excellent links to other pages, especially the ones on Sophism and Gorgias.
... Valuable
resources for further study of Isocretean rhetoric are included as well. ...
Imperium:
Rhetoric
... soon came to be rhetoric, the key to any successful politician's career.
Both the
term and those who practised Sophism were controversial, enjoying times of ...
Sophism
... sophism, a philosophical and religious term, began around the fifth century
bc as
a group of teachers, speakers, and philosophers who were paid to use rhetoric
...
Review -- Audience and
Rhetoric
... the making of meaning, but the less lofty practice of rhetoric (often
aligned negatively
with sophism) assumed a homogeneous, passive audience affected by the ...
History
of Rhetoric and Education
... its denigration by Plato and Aristotle, sophism provides a good model for
... 89. Johnson,
Nan. Nineteenth-Century Rhetoric in North America. Carbondale: Southern ...
The
Philosophy of Rhetoric - Book 1, Chapter 6
... forms of argument, the true syllogism from the various kinds of sophism, are
at once
cumbersome to the memory, and unnecessary in practice. No person ...
Political
Speech in Ancient Athens
... of Technology (1995). Online. 3 Nov.1999 <http://www.gatech.edu/gallery/rhetoric/terms/sophism.html>;
Franklin, Georgianna. "Sophist." Georgia Institute of ...
20th3.html
... 2 Crowley. "A Plea for the Revival of Sophism."* Poulakos, J.
"A Sophistic Definition
of Rhetoric."* Schiappa. "Sophistic Rhetoric: Oasis or Mirage?"*
Poulakos ...
Title page/intro
... of residual orality with Richard Enos' research on the development of
rhetoric and
Sophism in Ancient Greece, I relate that period of residual orality to our ...
Re:
irony/humor (IIIa) - (17:33:11 on 09/11/00) - aasor
... a better word. At one point, do your thoughts differ from Kierkegaard's?
jonny,
sophism? Empty rhetoric? Yes, it could appear so. Of course, it could be that
...
Rhetorical
Reasoning
... language of sophism and paralogism. 5) 'Philosophy' means literally 'love of
sophism,'
so philosophy implies a love of rhetoric. 6) Aristotle, et al., demoted ...
New
Page 1
... and Early History of Rhetoric. Topics: 1. rhetorical discourse 2. social
functions
of the art of rhetoric 3. the rise of rhetoric and sophism in ancient Greece.
...
ENG 493/593
... Texts: Gilyard, Voices of the Self Mailloux, Rhetoric, Sophism, Pragmatism,
Lunsford,
Reclaiming Rhetorica Supplementary materials: some located on-line (see ...
Untitled
Document
... Sophism (focus on rhetoric, relative knowledge, and virtue). Protagoras -
Concerning the Gods; see also Plato's dialogues, Protagoras & Sophist. ...
Alan Razee
... nca panel discussion visual rhetoric dormann claire visual rhetoric david
blakesley
sophism stanford encyclopedia of philosophy repositories of primary sources ...
Notes on
"The Meno," by Plato
... A note on "sophistry": sophism: (from Greek sophisma: clever
device, trick ... a paid
teacher of philosophy and rhetoric, esp. one associated with specious reasoning
...
Earl's
Commentary on the Phaedrus, Part 2
... of Lysias, it will be more like a clearing house for references to rhetoric
and sophism,
including treatments of these issues more moderate than the positions ...
Bryn Mawr
Classical Review 98.07.08
... of suspicion that persistently surrounds it. 'Empty rhetoric,' we hear,
meaning bombast;
or 'pure rhetoric,' meaning sophism. Admittedly volatile in its power ...
