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- noun Plural form of
sophistry .
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The lessons had not gone on very long, however, before he tried to insinuate into his teaching some of the kind of sophistries which another tutor had imposed by way of moral philosophy on Rousseau's
The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand
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Because they simply exude sophistries for the wealthy, their one and only task.
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Nothing more readily brings to mind the Passion of Christ than these miserable sophistries relating to torture/non-torture:
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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But here's a question that Krugman, earnestly hoping to save humanity from superstition and cant like a latter-day Voltaire, does not ask in that introduction: Why is economics so prone to such distortions and glib sophistries?
Robert Teitelman: Politics and economic truths Robert Teitelman 2010
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Nothing more readily brings to mind the Passion of Christ than these miserable sophistries relating to torture/non-torture:
Torture 2009
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But here's a question that Krugman, earnestly hoping to save humanity from superstition and cant like a latter-day Voltaire, does not ask in that introduction: Why is economics so prone to such distortions and glib sophistries?
Robert Teitelman: Politics and economic truths Robert Teitelman 2010
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But here's a question that Krugman, earnestly hoping to save humanity from superstition and cant like a latter-day Voltaire, does not ask in that introduction: Why is economics so prone to such distortions and glib sophistries?
Robert Teitelman: Politics and economic truths Robert Teitelman 2010
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Go Democrats: at least if the sex offenders got life sentences (the death penalty idea is patently absurd) it would be honest and out in the open and something that would be reasonably subject to constitutional challenge without dealing with silly sophistries about what "punishment" is.
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Was that one of those sophistries you keep hallucinating?
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(Though I "adduced" no sophistries or misdirections whatsoever and, Linda, you're not following the reasoning herein, I merely invoked Oresme as an earlier, counter example, not to slight or detract from Galileo's empirical data any more than I'd wish to slight or detract from Tycho Brahe's own methodology and system, relevant to that specific period - but all that begins to get into more arcane subject matter, as noted.)
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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