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Article #16990Re: Fun with Sophists
From: Gregory L. Hansen
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 01:11
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 01:11
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In article <3f119807.9063350@news.cityscape.co.uk>, Robert Stonehouse <ew65@bcs.org.uk> wrote: >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. So the guy that wanders the neighborhood in his pajamas at night is a sleep-peripateticist? -- "When fighting with sharpened Bronze, or harder Metals from the Heavens, it is Wise to kick thy Opponent, be he a Chaldean or a man of Uruk, in his Man Sack, that thou mayst defeat him more handily than by Arms. So sayeth INNAMURUTUSHIMMILODEK, who hath slain threescore Ammelekites."
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10b271,af806e85666f7193 X-Google-Attributes: gid10b271,public X-Google-Thread: 102ffd,af806e85666f7193 X-Google-Attributes: gid102ffd,public X-Google-Thread: 105352,af806e85666f7193 X-Google-Attributes: gid105352,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-07-13 18:11:21 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!canoe.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!news.indiana.edu!not-for-mail From: glhansen@steel.ucs.indiana.edu (Gregory L. Hansen) Newsgroups: sci.physics,alt.usage.english,humanities.classics Subject: Re: Fun with Sophists Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 01:11:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 30 Message-ID: <besvvo$tes$3@hood.uits.indiana.edu> References: <2a0cceff.0307121611.4c2defb3@posting.google.com> <3F11276C.996FCCBA@yahoo-dot.ca> <MPG.197b0802bf93830098998b@news.CIS.DFN.DE> <3f119807.9063350@news.cityscape.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: steel02.uits.indiana.edu X-Trace: hood.uits.indiana.edu 1058145080 30172 129.79.6.186 (14 Jul 2003 01:11:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: news-admin@indiana.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 01:11:20 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test62 (21 February 1998)