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Article #16988Re: Fun with Sophists
From: Robert Stonehouse
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:46
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:46
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On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 07:09:48 -0400, Gary Vellenzer <nycram@seznam.cz> wrote: >In article <3F11276C.996FCCBA@yahoo-dot.ca>, odysseus1479-at@yahoo- >dot.ca says... >> Edward Green wrote: >> > >> > How many ancient Greek philosophical schools have left us their name >> > as labels describing their most characteristic traits? You suggest >> > sophistry, and stoicism comes to mind. Others? >> >> There are "cynic" and "epicure" (with various grammatical forms) ... >> and of course "academic". >> >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.
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