http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussions/feed.rss Sun, 05 Sep 10 23:59:06 -0700 All Discussions - Sophist Society en-CA http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/59/wording-of-a-phrase. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:17:04 -0700 Ari 59@/forums/index.php?p=/discussions
1.( often initial capital letter ) Greek History .
a. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation.
b. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.

2.
a person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than soundly.

3.
a philosopher.

Source: www.dictionary.com


Or, if you would rather, From the World English Dictionary we get this definition:
1. ( often capital ) one of the pre-Socratic philosophers who were itinerant professional teachers of oratory and argument and who were prepared to enter into debate on any matter however specious.

2. a person who uses clever or quibbling arguments that are fundamentally unsound .

Thank you much for your clarification on this matter.
]]> http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/55/conscious-expierence Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:22:49 -0700 Myownend 55@/forums/index.php?p=/discussions
"Mary is confined to a black-and-white room and educated through black-and-white books and lectures on a black-and-white television. In this way, she learns everything there is to know about the physical world. If physicalism—the doctrine that everything is physical—is true, then Mary seems to know all there is to know. What happens, then, when she emerges from her black-and-white room and sees the color red for the first time?"

This quote is brought to you from the following site. http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?tid=10261&ttype=2]]> http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/35/abortion Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:04:47 -0700 Myownend 35@/forums/index.php?p=/discussions http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/64/wikileaks-posts-huge-encrypted-file- Fri, 06 Aug 2010 09:29:29 -0700 bobtheman 64@/forums/index.php?p=/discussions http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/08/05/wikileaks-posts-huge-encrypted-insurance-file-web-sparking-rumors-new/

interesting article. I think that we need organizations like wikileaks just like we need classified documents. ]]> http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/63/kagan-is-confirmed-112th-justice-of-the-supreme-court.- Fri, 06 Aug 2010 08:53:58 -0700 bobtheman 63@/forums/index.php?p=/discussions http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/61/do-unbaptised-infants-or-the-unborn-go-to-heaven Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:40:23 -0700 Ari 61@/forums/index.php?p=/discussions Anacortian and a friend of ours had this conversation while I was simply present once. It got me thinking. There is "Baptism of Desire". Where one desires to be baptized and intends to be so, but has not gone through the process and ceremony of baptism. For our children, unborn and in their infancy, we make their decisions for them as their advocates until they reach the age of reason. If one intends to have their children baptized and thus erasing their original sin, the parents, as advocate do qualify their children for "Baptism of Desire". So who is to say that they don't make it to Heaven?]]> http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/52/how-does-emotion-affect-reason Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:15:06 -0700 Myownend 52@/forums/index.php?p=/discussions http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/58/second-amendment-nics-the-brady-bill-and-its-constitutionality- Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:02:56 -0700 admin 58@/forums/index.php?p=/discussions
The second amendment reads
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

And the brady handgun violence prevention act sets limitations on the transfer of guns. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brady_Handgun_Violence_Prevention_Act

"These prohibitions apply to any person who:

1. Has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
2. Is a fugitive from justice;
3. Is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance;
4. Has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental institution;
5. Is an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States;
6. Has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions;
7. Having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced U.S. citizenship;
8. Is subject to a court order that restrains the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner or child of such intimate partner, or;
9. Has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence."

does the second amendment only apply to those we see fit? are we only allowed to own firearms the government agrees with? ]]> http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/57/deus-est Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:46:44 -0700 Myownend 57@/forums/index.php?p=/discussions http://www.sophistsociety.com/forums/index.php?p=/discussion/56/philosophy-of-islam-is-peace-and-harmony-in-all-affairs-of-man Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:30:23 -0700 Myownend 56@/forums/index.php?p=/discussions