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Word For The Day, Thursday, January 16, 2014 – sophist
dictionaries ad nauseam | 16 January 2014 | Thursday's sub

Posted on 01/16/2014 4:24:10 AM PST by secret garden


In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".

sophist (SOF-ist), noun
One who makes clever, but unsound arguments.

Example sentence:
"But this day Mansoor had turned five, and Ma used a sophist's argument to call for a celebration."
---M.G. Vassanji; The Assassin's Song; Doubleday; 2007.

Etymology:
From Latin sophista, from Greek sophistes (sage), from sophos (clever). Earliest documented use: 1542. In ancient Greece, Sophists were philosophers and teachers known for their subtle, but fallacious reasoning.

The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....


Review Threads:

Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate

WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!


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To: secret garden

good one! ROR!!!


21 posted on 01/16/2014 6:39:48 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
They are all dethpicable. /Sylvester

A+ for you.
22 posted on 01/16/2014 6:45:35 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: tioga

Everybody puts a marble in a fishbowl when they come in and takes the marble out when they leave.


23 posted on 01/16/2014 7:39:37 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: xsmommy
Get your guns while you can. Elections have consequences.
24 posted on 01/16/2014 8:11:36 AM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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To: SoothingDave

and all goes well till you lose your marbles...


25 posted on 01/16/2014 8:12:07 AM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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To: tioga
House of Delegates is in Republican hands. Terry's hands are tied.
26 posted on 01/16/2014 8:17:59 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: hobbes1
not to encourage you or anything, but this is so true:


27 posted on 01/16/2014 8:34:26 AM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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To: xsmommy

if your state legislature is 2/3 Rep how the hell did terry get elected? cheat much did he?


28 posted on 01/16/2014 8:35:39 AM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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To: tioga

they demonized Cooch as anti-woman, and the NRSC did not give Cooch the $ he needed to counter McAuliffe’s mendacious media blitz.


29 posted on 01/16/2014 8:38:56 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: tioga
I don't know what the bent of YAHOO news is, but i was encouraged to see the comments to this article were uniformly [at least as far as i got] antiOBams.
30 posted on 01/16/2014 8:39:50 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

And here I thought absolutely anyone with a pulse could get accepted to some college.


31 posted on 01/16/2014 8:58:06 AM PST by SoothingDave
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To: SoothingDave

well as the comments make clear, obv the intent is to make it more available for FREE to those who cannot afford to get a scholarship or to pay tuition. Anyone who needs to go to college can go, IMO. this is BS as is most everything else he spews.


32 posted on 01/16/2014 9:04:48 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

Why the heck does he keep appearing with his sleeves rolled up, as if he has ever done a real job that required it? All style, no substance, ladies and gentlemen, this is the democrat party.


33 posted on 01/16/2014 9:08:55 AM PST by secret garden (Why procrastinate when you can perendinate?)
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To: secret garden

Nancy Pe-lousey displays a remarkable talent for sophistry when she argues that extending unemployment benefits boosts the economy!


34 posted on 01/16/2014 9:10:47 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: secret garden

POSER POSEUR


35 posted on 01/16/2014 9:12:36 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

My daughter (along with 25 other members of the Richmond Symphony Chorus) sang the Start Spangled Banner for the opening of the house of Delegates last week.


36 posted on 01/16/2014 9:18:34 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: xsmommy

They complain that we don’t have smart kids, but the smart ones cannot afford to go to college, while the poorer undereducated get in free. Makes no sense.


37 posted on 01/16/2014 9:29:37 AM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

That must have been very nice.


38 posted on 01/16/2014 9:37:56 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: tioga

oh i think the smart ones have no trouble at all in this day and age, there is tons of scholarship $ available. Obama wants to get into college the ones that have no business being there.


39 posted on 01/16/2014 9:38:43 AM PST by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy

There are lots of smart kids with poor parents, just not dirt poor in ghettos. Poor from medical bills, business failures, etc. The upper middle class that has some kind of financial upheaval, that is so common today. They incur untold debt to go to school with no job prospects when they get out. Yet we all pay for these underachieving kids to go these days.


40 posted on 01/16/2014 9:47:35 AM PST by tioga (Wise men still seek Him.)
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