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I mean, I might think your take on "faith" on that BSG thread was "Sophistic Monosensicalism", but I'm pretty sure I've argued on the same principle myself on many occasions.
Arguing With Geeks 2 Hal Duncan 2009
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Sophistic Monosensicalism — Not to be confused with precision of use, Sophistic Monosensicalism is the insistence that a word only has one (narrowly specific and literal) sense, in an attempt to challenge the relevance of a statement in which that word is used in another (general and/or figurative) sense.
Arguing With Geeks 2 Hal Duncan 2009
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Sophistic Monosensicalism — Not to be confused with precision of use, Sophistic Monosensicalism is the insistence that a word only has one (narrowly specific and literal) sense, in an attempt to challenge the relevance of a statement in which that word is used in another (general and/or figurative) sense.
Archive 2009-03-01 Hal Duncan 2009
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Sophistic Refutations 25, 180a27-b7, that, from almost the very beginning of the insolubilia-literature to the end of the Middle Ages, served as the framework for discussing insolubles.
Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009
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This suggestion is reinforced by the fact that the earliest known medieval statement of the Liar occurs in 1132, around the time the Sophistic Refutations first began to circulate in Western Europe in Latin translation.
Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009
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Sophistic at 25 — Yes, the gilded age does seem to be repeating itself, but in a different spiral of the universe.
Firedoglake » Corruption and Lobbying Reform Stalls…Again 2006
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Dialectic from Sophistic and Eristic, where the distinction is said to consist in this, that dialectical conclusions are true in their form and their contents, while sophistical and eristical conclusions are false.
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Sophistic; and in either case it would have to be assumed that we were aware of what was true and what was false; and it is seldom that we have any clear idea of the truth beforehand.
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Eristic so far differs from Sophistic that, while the master of
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Dialectic, we must include in it Sophistic, Eristic, and
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