sophistic

• “A comment was banned for the use of the word sophistic?”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Comment Quality:

• “With the movement in Greek thought which is generally known as sophistic,”

  Atheism in Pagan Antiquity

• “Sullen countermodernity images the academic as the snide sophistic Last Man, pathetically, defensively retreated into what – all good sense knows – is pseudo-intellectual flummery.”

  Critique From HereNow

• “Claudius follows this with a sophistic argument -- "But you must know your father lost a father" -- which functions as a licentia.”

  Modality and Hamlet

• “Where these features are self-evident, the sophistic monosensicalist will not challenge the accuracy of the observation but will instead insist that “marriage” refers only to the instituionalised union of husband and wife, in order to redraw the goalposts and exclude the weight of evidence; there is only one example of “marriage” in the work, they will insist, so this canot be a key theme.”

  Arguing With Geeks 2

• “You and I both know, I reached into that sophistic bag that could go on forever.”

  Release the Crowley/Gates tapes. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState

• “This seems to me to have been unnecessary and rather sophistic (except to achieve the results desired in locking up this defendant).”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Not the Best Way to Inspire Confidence

• “Unfortunately, the ambiguities inherent in such inconsistent characterizations of genocide have allowed for a sophistic intellectualization of the term.”

  The Huffington Post: Menachem Rosensaft: Criminalizing Mass Murder: 65 Years After The UN's First Condemnation Of Genocide

• “One can hardly imagine a more lucid retort than the one given by Carl Olson to the sophistic Fr. Reese s.j., but on this matter, the opinion of Fr James V. Schall s.j. is an interesting take about the N.D. president's invitation to Obama (with the ominous corollarium of a Honoris Causa doctorate promised to the new president).”

  Fr. Reese's flawed arguments for Pres. Obama at Notre Dame

• “Leo makes solemn obeisance at the altar of Beauty, and Dar Hyal juggles his sophistic blastism to no end save all your applause for his cleverness.”

  CHAPTER XX

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