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To: Socratic; Frumious Bandersnatch
Would you be calling a Socratic, a Sophist?

Socrates himself was called a Sophist in his day.

31 posted on 11/01/2007 11:17:30 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: NutCrackerBoy
Socrates himself was called a Sophist in his day.

Which is precisely why popular perception should never be equated with fact - and why the deductive process, when applied to false "facts," does not lead to truth.

39 posted on 11/02/2007 7:18:04 AM PDT by Socratic (“Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” - Corrie Ten Boom)
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