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September 11, 2019
corr error in linking the ref article
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ref note re "The Sophist" Platonic Dialogue, with source cited - drawn from Wikipedia article "The Sophist (dialogue)", but here condensed and edited
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→Examples of Sophistry: borrowed example from article Cafeteria Christianity#Proof texts
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August 5, 2019
→Examples of Sophistry: linked amoral
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Example of Plato's dialogue "Gorgias" exposes the dangers of amoral sophistical argument, in a demonstration of allowing the sophist, on the basis of a fallacy of clever sophistical logic, to lead him to "admit" that his father was a mongrel dog.
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set up External links, with link to http://people.uwplatt.edu/~ciesield/platovsoph.htm Plato vs. Sophists (philosophy vs. rhetoric)
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