Re: Fun with Sophists

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From: mb
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 04:24

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glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) wrote
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> >>Surprizingly, Aristotle's Peripatetic school didn't leave a common noun 
> >>or adjective as a residue.
> >
> >You find peripatetic used to describe somebody who walks about. Not as
> >a type of philosophical doctrine though.
> 
> So the guy that wanders the neighborhood in his pajamas at night is a 
> sleep-peripateticist?

Why not? At any rate, the school left a really common word in French
(jokingly repeated in English in the Fifties, if I remember well).
P�ripat�ticienne = hooker.

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