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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
==Examples of Sophistry==
==Examples of Sophistry==
[[Plato]] in his 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.
[[Plato]] in his 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.<ref>See also Plato's dialogue''The '''Sophist''''', source Henri Estienne (ed.), ''Platonis opera quae extant omnia'', Vol. 1, 1578, [https://archive.org/stream/platonisoperaqua01plat#page/216/mode/2up p. 217], a Platonic dialogue from the philosopher's late period, most likely written in 360 BC. Its main theme is to identify what a sophist is and how a sophist differs from a [[philosopher]] and [[statesman]]. Because each seems distinguished by a particular form of knowledge, the dialogue continues some of the lines of inquiry pursued in the [[Epistemology|epistemological]] dialogue, ''Theaetetus'', which is said to have taken place the day before ''The Sophist''. Its sequel is ''The Statesman''. (See [https://en.wikipedia/wiki/Sophist_(dialogue) ''The Sophist'' (dialogue) - Wikipedia].)</ref>
Conservative Christian historians and [[Christian apologetics|apologists]] are mindful of this statement by [[John Eck]] addressed to [[Martin Luther]], in the year 1521:<ref>Eck's statement here is supremely appropriate in light of Luther's refusal to submit to the judgment of the Church, the emperor Charles V, and the [[Pope]], and the teaching of Paul in [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+13:1-5&version=KJV Romans 13:1-5].</ref><blockquote>
Conservative Christian historians and [[Christian apologetics|apologists]] are mindful of this statement by [[John Eck]] addressed to [[Martin Luther]], in the year 1521:<ref>Eck's statement here is supremely appropriate in light of Luther's refusal to submit to the judgment of the Church, the emperor Charles V, and the [[Pope]], and the teaching of Paul in [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+13:1-5&version=KJV Romans 13:1-5].</ref><blockquote>