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The reaction of the Socratic school against the sophistic may serve to illustrate the third stage of thinking.
Essays in Experimental Logic | John DeweyLack of merit may be so complete, so grotesque, that the composition affords to the sophistic eye a high order of comedy.
Shandygaff | Christopher MorleyBut what will become of our young gentleman, if he be attacked with the sophistic subtlety of some syllogism?
The Essays of Montaigne, Complete | Michel de Montaigne
Hitherto such writers have confined their view mostly to speculative points, sophistic reasonings, and sarcastic interpellations.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems | Walter Savage LandorThis consequence of the sophistic principles was drawn both by many of the Sophists themselves, and later by the Cyrenaics.
A Critical History of Greek Philosophy | W. T. Stace
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