By Christopher W. Tindale
Beginning with the reception of the Sophists of their personal tradition, Tindale explores depictions of the Sophists in Plato's dialogues and the argumentative innovations attributed to them as a method of knowing the danger Sophism posed to Platonic philosophical pursuits of fact looking. He additionally considers the character of the "sophistical refutation" and its position within the culture of fallacy. Tindale then turns to textual examples of particular argumentative practices, mapping how Sophists hired the argument from chance, reversal arguments, arguments on both sides of a place, and typical reasoning. What emerges is a posh reappraisal of Sophism that reorients feedback of this mode of argumentation, expands knowing of Sophistic contributions to classical rhetoric, and opens avenues for additional scholarship.
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