Sophistry
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Sophistry by SupremePie August 4, 2007
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Sophistry
sophistry is obsessive thinking out loud. it is an attention seeking behaviour that loners or so called "philosophers" use to attract other people and make them listen to their non-sense crap.
"A mind that gives an opinion about a fact is a narrow, limited, destructive mind. …You can translate the fact in one way, and I can translate it in another way. The translation of the fact is a curse which prevents us from seeing the actual fact and doing something about the fact. When you and I discuss our opinions about the fact, nothing is done about the fact; you can add perhaps more to the fact, see more nuances, implications, significance about the fact, and I may see less significance in the facts. But the fact cannot be interpreted; I cannot offer an opinion about the fact. It is so, and it is very difficult for a mind to accept the fact. We are always translating, we are always giving different meanings to it, according to our prejudices, conditionings, hopes, fears and all the rest of it. If you and I could see the fact without offering an opinion, interpreting, giving a significance, then the fact becomes much more alive - not more alive - the fact is there alone, nothing else matters; then the fact has its own energy which drives you in the right direction."
This was a pure example of some professional sophistry!
This was a pure example of some professional sophistry!
Sophistry by Katherine Aya August 9, 2006
anthro-sophistry
- derogatory slang for "anthroposophy," a loosely-anthropology-based psuedo-academic cult formed in the 70's.
- a practice that utilizes archetypal characteristics to exploit an individual's weaknesses; establish that individual as a passive subject rather than a conscious, volitional actor; alienate; subvert and erode an individual's sense of self, particularly in relation to others; engage in character-sabotage; also to pass and/or gather (often very private) information for any variety of reasons, ranging from personal revenge to broad-based politics.
- a practice that utilizes archetypal characteristics to exploit an individual's weaknesses; establish that individual as a passive subject rather than a conscious, volitional actor; alienate; subvert and erode an individual's sense of self, particularly in relation to others; engage in character-sabotage; also to pass and/or gather (often very private) information for any variety of reasons, ranging from personal revenge to broad-based politics.
yeah, i steer clear of that prof; he claims to raise consciousness, but he's in deep with anthro-sophistry.
anthro-sophistry by informazioni September 23, 2011
Sophistaratchet
A sophisticated ratchet. A classy, attractive, well-educated woman who can also recite rap lyrics and make her ass clap. You can spot her at a private table in the most exclusive club in the city. She'll usually be sitting in the booth or standing by the bottles sipping casually... until A$AP: Get Lit comes on. At this point, her bootylicious donk will take over. You'll be staring at her uncontrollably and genuinely wonder if she actually is a stripper. She might dance so dirty that you think you actually have a chance with her. You don't.
If your gay boyfriend is white and has no idea who Lauryn Hill is, but you had to turn Trinidad James down to make sure you heard him correctly, you might be a sophistaratchet.
Sophistaratchet by sophistaratchet_2 May 13, 2013
softistry
softistry by ΔиłĦ☼иצ ߀₡ʞ February 28, 2010
sophist
A person who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument. Later characterized by Plato as superficial manipulators of rhetoric and dialectic.
Jima seems to think that simply winning is more important than being right. It should come as no surprise, then, that his arguments are those of a sophist.
sophist by SquarePegIX December 6, 2007