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• LET us now discuss sophistic refutations, i.e. what appear to be refutations but are really fallacies instead. —  The Book Of THoTH, Popular Articles from The Archive Category - Zen
• The accuracy of these denials depends in part on their lawyerly wording, on "what the meaning of 'is' is," in former President Bill Clinton's sophistic phrase. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
• In order to unite them he made his lodge a mixture of all sophistic, Martiniste, and masonic systems, "and as a bait to the aristocracy organized balls and concerts at which the adepts, male and female, danced and feasted, or sang of the beauties of their liberty and equality, little knowing that above them was a secret committee which was arranging to extend this equality beyond the lodge to rank and fortune, to castles and to cottages, to marquesses and bourgeois" alike. —  Secret Societies And Subversive Movements
• Suppose, then, that Michelangelo failed in his heads and faces, he, being an Italian, and therefore confessedly inferior to the Greeks in his bodies and limbs, must, by the force of logic, emerge less meritorious than we thought him VII To many of my readers the foregoing section will appear superfluous, polemical, sophistic--three bad things. —  The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
• And the sophist and orator are in the same case; although you admire rhetoric and despise sophistic, whereas sophistic is really the higher of the two. —  Gorgias

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