Re: Fun with Sophists

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From: Mike Lyle
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 16:06

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tomcatpolka@yaNOSPAMhoo.com wrote in message news:<bigj8l$1bh$2@news1.radix.net>...
> In alt.usage.english Mike Lyle <mike_lyle_uk@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> >> >The cynic and the epicure, of course!  Thanks.
> >> 
> >> Pity, though, that both terms now mean something quite different from
> >> their original meanings.
>  
> > We just have to be stoical about that.
> 
> Tell it to the Cyrenaics! Of the Cynics, Cyrenaics, Epicureans, and Stoics,
> they're the only Hellenic school who didn't become a common word.

An Academic point.

Mike.

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