But surely, if you speak falsely I shall throw you into water . " Socrates replied, " You are going to throw me into the water . " Socrates's response is a sophism that puts Plato in a difficult situation.
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"The recognized alliance of Pastrana with the United States to augment the war in Colombia against the FARC, with the distractive sophism of jointly combatting drug trafficking, puts in doubt the government's peace intentions, " the communique stated.
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It would be an illusion to believe that an arbitrary stabilization of the world population or its decrease could directly cure the problem of hunger . . . We must renounce the sophism that affirms that being large in number is condemning oneself to be poor.
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The encyclical describes communism as " " a system full of errors and sophisms " " that " subverts the social order, because it means the destruction of its foundations " as well as removing women from their rightful place in the home.
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We are all smart people here, regardless of POV, and hence I think that the only thing that really gets to me is how casually we insult each other's intelligence by using sophism, conspiranoia, and strawmen to prop our own POVs.
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The Idle Argument was anticipated by Aristotle in his " De Interpretatione " chapter 9 . The Stoics considered it to be a sophism and the Stoic Chrysippus attempted to refute it by pointing out that consulting the doctor would be as much fated as recovering.
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In his solution to the sophism, Walter Burley applied the principle " nothing is true unless at this instant " ( " " nihil est verum nisi in hoc instanti " " ) and concluded that " if a proposition is true it must be true now ".
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:" Men have been perplexed in well-nigh every age by a sophism which the ancients called the'Lazy reason', because it tended towards doing nothing, or at least towards being careful for nothing, and only following inclination for the pleasure of the moment.
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:In this case you could call it sophism if you like : a closely reasoned, empty argument ( but very clever in the poem [ do you think any woman would be swayed by it ? ] ) .-- Halcatalyst 18 : 30, 11 March 2006 ( UTC)
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Buridan's bridge sophism was used by Miguel de Cervantes in " Don Quixote ", when Sancho was presented with the Buridan's bridge dilemma : A man who was going to cross the bridge was asked to respond truthfully where he was going or otherwise to face a death by hanging.
