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1." Socrates' sophistry (that is, his false opinion about the capacity of most humans for philosophical reflection) is an inevitable consequence of his philosophizing: precisely because he is purely and simply a philosopher, Socrates both is and is not a bad citizen."

Source:  Salkever, Stephen. "The Paradox of Political Philosophy: Socrates' Philosophic Trial" Review of Politics 61.1 Jan. 1 1999: 141-145

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2." This is not scholarship, but sophistry of the basest sort and only contributes to the deceit that enshrouds Palestinian and Israeli disputes."

Source:  . "Letters from Readers" Commentary 109.1 Jan. 1 2000: 3

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3." But while this anti-dogmatism led some younger clergy to unorthodox views of the Trinity in the closing decades of the century, the majority of 'enlightened' divines were orthodox (some even evangelical) and critical of the irreligious philosophes across the Channel."

Source:  HINDMARSH, BRUCE. "Religion and enlightenment in eighteenth-century England.Theological debate from Locke to Burke" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 50.4 Oct. 1 1999: 807

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4." This relative impartiality in Confucius on the one hand asks for "no arbitrariness of opinion, no dogmatism, no obstinacy, and no egotism."(63) On the other hand, it states that the way to overcome egoistic arbitrariness and dogmatic..."

Source:  Wang, Qingjie James. "THE GOLDEN RULE AND INTERPERSONAL CARE--FROM A CONFUCIAN PERSPECTIVE" Philosophy East and West 49.4 Oct. 1 1999: 415

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5."... that raises doubt about its validity. [. . .] Szymborska's finest point is the very dogmatism of the opinion that prompts the naivet[acute{e}] of the question." [5] This restlessness of tone--each accessible question challenging..."

Source:  TAPSCOTT, STEPHEN,PRZYBYTEK, MARIUSZ. "Sky, The Sky, A Sky, Heaven, The Heavens, A Heaven, Heavens: Reading Szymborska Whole" American Poetry Review 29.4 July 1 2000: 41

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6."... plus problematique, en ce que Diderot ne partage pas routes les idles (notamment celles des anciens philosophes, chaldeens, etc.) qu'il place dans la bouche de Desbrosses pour convaincre Mademoiselle Dornet."

Source:  Rebejkow, Jean-Christophe. "A PROPOS DE MYSTIFICATION: L'IRONIE DE DIDEROT" Romanic Review 89.4 Nov. 1 1998: 507

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7."... historically 'great' analytic philosophers" (426); (4) "analytic philosophy has no canonical texts" (426); and (5) "analytic philosophy has adopted the habit of presenting itself in the form of a perpetual new beginning" (427)."

Source:  Auxier, Randall E. "The Humbling of the Pride" Humanitas 12.2 Sept. 22 1999: 114

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8." In the words of the philosopher Thomas Hobbes in Leviathan, human life in an anarchic "state of nature" is "solitary, poor, nasty, and short." To prevent the perpetual..."

Source:  Cole, Daniel H. "Clearing the air: four propositions about property rights and environmental protection" Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum 10.1 Sept. 22 1999: 103

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9." Institutions better devised than the projects for perpetual peace that have occupied the leisure and consoled the spirit of some philosophers will accelerate the progress of this brotherhood among nations."

Source:  Baker, Keith Michael. "Sketch for a historical picture of the progress of the human mind: tenth epoch" Daedalus 133.3 June 22 2004: 65-83

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10."... and "there was nothing constant except the perpetual change in everything." For British statesman and writer Edmund Burke, criticizing the philosophers of the French Revolution, "It has been the misfortune (not as these gentlemen..."

Source:  ROTHSCHILD, EMMA. "THE AGE OF INSUBORDINATION" Foreign Policy June 22 2000: 46

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11." His distinction from his fellow citizens is not that he possesses any special truth from which the multitude is excluded, but that he remains always ready to endure the pathos of wonder and thereby avoids the dogmatism of mere opinion holders."

Source:  Arendt, Hannah. "Philosophy and politics" Social Research 71.3 Sept. 22 2004: 427-455

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12." In this superbly written biography Professor Martinich, already established as an expert authority on Hobbes the philosopher, gives us Hobbes the man and religious 'iconoclast,' the controversialist, the mathematician and the humanist."

Source:  . "Hobbes: A Biography" Contemporary Review 275.1606 Nov. 1 1999: 275

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13." She locates Speght's polemics within the pamphlet controversy accompanying Joseph Swetnam's 1615 diatribe, the Araignment of Lewde, idle, froward, and unconstant women."

Source:  Arnold, Margaret J. "The Polemics and Poems of Rachel Speght" Renaissance Quarterly v51.n3 Sept. 22 1998: 1065-1067

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14." He also got a man reviled by some who saw him as a demagogue on sex and gender issues and inflexible in his dogmatism and in his determination to impose a stern moral discipline on his flock."

Source:  Sheler, Jeffery L.,Roane, Kit R. "The end of an era in New York" U.S. News & World Report 128.19 May 15 2000: 49

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15." John Kettle is a philosopher from one of our better centuries, the glorious 18th, a man of prescience and remarkable insight: "When an opinion comes to be held by almost everyone,"..."

Source:  Pruden, Wesley. "No Mexican standoff in these results" Washington Times July 4 2000: 4

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16." The mixture of sophistry and sloppy research just described pervades the entire book."

Source:  FREEMAN, THOMAS S. "The quiet Reformation. Magistrates and the emergence ofProtestantism in Tudor Norwich" Journal of Ecclesiastical History 51.2 Apr. 1 2000: 419

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17." When all caveats about his sophistry and condescension have been made, glum readers may be tempted to reflect that Prochaska's central argument remains valid."

Source:  Cohen, Nick. "In the name of God, go" New Statesman (1996) 129.4498 Aug. 7 2000: 39

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18." Unfortunately, Peritore also uses these chapters to attack postmodernism as a philosophy, dismissing it in florid terms as "an attitude, a pose, hip sophistry" (p. 22) and "the decay product of avant-guard leftist modernism" (p. 228)."

Source:  Hochstetler, Kathryn. "Third World Environmentalism: Case Studies from the GlobalSouth" American Political Science Review 94.3 Sept. 1 2000: 752

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19." The justification that these are two different books is a weird sort of sophistry, given that the first was a version that Fitzgerald didn't..."

Source:  Evans, Julian. "An American sublime" New Statesman (1996) 129.4501 Aug. 28 2000: 38

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20."... the French edition: p.1 of the chapter 'Langage et explication'). (5.) According to Hermogenus, orator of the second sophistry, quoted by Perrine Galand-Hallyn in Le Refiet des fleurs: description et m[acute{e}]talangage d'Hom[grave{e}]re..."

Source:  HERMANGE, EMMANUEL. "Aspects and uses of ekphrasis in relation to photography, 1816-186O [*]" Journal of European Studies 30.1 Mar. 1 2000: 5

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21."... compelled to sophistry and the need to outfox local countries' decrees and their discriminatory rulings."

Source:  PEDAHZUR, AMI,HASISI, BADI,BRICHTA, AVRAHAM. "A Proposed Model for Explaining Political Violence in Israel" World Affairs 163.1 June 22 2000: 18

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22." Furthermore, it does seem necessary for there to be a regular reinstatement of existential truths, since new mythologies ever seem to accompany new socio-cultural contexts--new fallacies and sophistries alongside old."

Source:  Rapport, Nigel. "Celebrating and Advocating the Personalisation of the World: A Reply to Don Gardner" Australian Journal of Anthropology 11.2 Aug. 1 2000: 223

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23." This is, of course, historical sophistry and ignores the many differences between then and now, not least of them the pre-Civil War proliferation of political parties and the lack of truly national media in the mid-19th century."

Source:  Hines, Cragg. "Blame Abe Lincoln and Steve Forbes" Nieman Reports 54.2 June 22 2000: 37

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24." While Dawes was away from Washington and absent from the House, Loan attacked his report as containing "specious sophistries." Dawes, continued Loan, believed that no one would challenge his report and, as a result, had decided to stay out of the debate."

Source:  Tap, Bruce. ""UNION MEN TO THE POLLS, AND REBELS TO THEIR HOLES": THE CONTESTED ELECTION BETWEEN JOHN P. BRUCE AND BENJAMIN F. LOAN, 1862" Civil War History 46.1 Mar. 1 2000: 24

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25." Some conservatives argue that the removal of a feeding tube from such a patient is nothing less than allowing the patient to "starve" to death; and that it is sophistry and self-deception not to see this."

Source:  CALLAHAN, DANIEL. "SPLITTING HAIRS : Morality & self-deception" Commonweal 127.11 June 2 2000: 7

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