Callinicus (sophist) Puns

*To be clear, I'm talking about having read only the Apology and Crito as the only works by Plato I've read

Battle Game in 5 Seconds - Episode 1 (PREMIERE) - "Sophist"

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Synopsis

>It was just a usual morning.
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>Akira Shiroyanagi, a high schooler who loves games and Konpeito (Japanese sweets), has suddenly been dragged into a battlefield by a mysterious girl who calls herself Mion. The participants are told that they are "erased from the family register, involved in an experiment, and gained certain powers."
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>Akira is determined to win the game with his newfound powers and destroy the organization. Armed with a power no one expects and his "brain" skills, the new period of intelligence battle begins!

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Genres: Action, Game, Super Power, Supernatural

Animation / Production: SynergySP, Vega Entertainment

English Main Voice Cast:

• Robbie Daymond - Akira Shiroyanagi
• Laura Stahl - Yuuri Amagake
• Lisa Ortiz - Mion
• Billy Kametz - Madoka Kirisaki
• Bill Butts - Shin Kumagiri
• Kennady Ray - Rin Kashii
• Xanthe Huynh - Ringo Tatara
• Michael Schneider - ADR Director
• Elizabeth Ellis - Translations
• ADR Scriptwriter - Madeleine Morris
• ADR Engineer - Beto Vargas
• Audio Editor - Sebastian Boone

Dub Produced By - SDI Media

Note to Binge Watchers Barring Any Delays The 1st Season Will Be Fully Dubbed on the 15th of November per the AnimeDubs Release Calendar

Eldritch Sophist

• Class: Seeker
• Type: Asset. Ally
• Ally. Miskatonic
• Cost: 4. Level: 0
• Test Icons: Willpower
• Health: 1. Sanity: 3

Uses (3 secrets).

[Free] Exhaust Eldritch Sophist: Move 1 secret or charge from an asset you control to another asset controlled by an investigator at your location.

Once you let go of your assumptions, anything is possible.

Alexandre Dainche

In Too Deep #111.

I believe this exists, but I cannot find it.

Anyone?

The agreement was that if he wins his first case, then he pays... but he just never took any cases at all.

The joke is that his teacher sues him (may be historically true story), and he argues that if he wins the case that means he doesn't have to pay; but if he loses the case that means he doesn't have to pay.

EDIT: Nevermind, I found it. His whole joke is that he is taking notes like he is going to use this strategy in court. Funny man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JJSJvsoo3I

I want to confirm something، Is it only me or you also feel so frustrated working with TI documentation ?

it's not the lake of information I faced with Renesas R-car but it's the complete opposite, its tens of documents that intersect or even copy each other, and sometimes you have different documents for the same thing with deferent details ... am I doing it wrong or it's really a mess, I would love to hear your inputs !

Aristophanes describes Socrates as a Sophist 20 years before his death and according to Aristotle, his piece of comedy was one of the reasons why people wanted the death of Socrates. I just had my first contact ever with Aristotle's Rhetorics, and even though both the book introduction, and Aristotle himself argument it is not sophistry, it does look a lot like what they condemn on the sophist practice.

Plato, the supposed author of the Dialogues, was teacher of Aristotle. So I was wondering of how much of what Aristotle teaches was common knowledge among his peers and how could many of Aristotle's rhetorical ideas could be in the Dialogues of Plato. It is easy to get a rhetorical argument when we imagine a court with a judge and both sides of a story. But in the Dialogues we have just Plato giving all the cards, playing the sides against him too. While Aristotle describes how people behave in a certain way because they are poor or rich, or young and elderly, we can see people being described like this in the Dialogues. These elements make me wonder if Plato wants to guide his readers on some way, but with a disguise we can't see because we are unaware of the persuasion strategies we see in Aristotle's Rhetoric.

How could I be sure that Gorgias was a bad sophist and Socrates was a ~sophist~ philosopher with pure heart that only sought the truth?

Could it just be the case that the Dialogues were just a post mortem propaganda written to change the bad reputation people had about Socrates? One point that bothers me since the beginning of my recent journey through history of philosophy is the fact that the Dialogues were written after Socrates' death. I imagine that of they were written the way they were whole Socrates was alive, they would be confronted against reality and the texts could be called lies since the beginning, but after his death, with the changes in the people memories, and the shifts on generations it ended up having a positive effect on who Socrates really was

I'd like to have written more, but I have to leave my bus now. Thanks for your attention :-)

I know the origins of sophism, but what exactly does it mean when a person says "he is being a sophist" about someone?

From what I gather, it means someone who deliberately uses deceptive or false arguments that might appear "clever" or valid in order to argue his positions. Is this what is most commonly meant, when refering to someone as a sophist?

The Sophist is by far the most complicated dialogue I've encountered so far, even though it's my 16th dialogue by Plato. I thought I had enough experience to understand anything by Plato without hard mental concentration, but this dialogue is just the challenge! I'm at the part (XXIV. Stranger) where the "likeness" and "appearance" of the sophist first comes up and the discourse starts to go into ontological grounds. I'm lost.

Can anybody help me by either explaining this part to me as simply as possible or by giving me an online article or video explaining it?

Thank you if you're helping me!

I am highly interested in the works of the Sophists, and find them more interesting than those that are usually praised, such as Plato or Aristotle. All of Protagoras's works have been lost, although as I know it has occurred that some of the Sophists' lost works have been found, such as one by Antiphon. Does anyone know anything about this?

Hi everyone,

For months now I've been thinking of all kinds of uses and builds based on the Eldritch Sophist, and eventually it ended up getting big and in-depth enough to make a full post about it.

And then this URL was available...

So please, enjoy:

https://orderofthesilvertwilight.com/2021/04/07/sophistry-101-an-eldritch-sophist-primer/

Herodotus, Book X:

A sophist impious orator was preaching in the Ecclesia on Socrates, a known advocate of the Thirty Tyrants.

“Before my speech begins, you must get on your knees and praise Apollo for the Spartan constitution and accept that they were the most highly-evolved laws that Hellas has ever known, even greater than Athenian Democracy!”

At this moment, a brave, patriotic, Athenian champion who had served 30 summers sailing across the Aegean and understood the necessity of protecting the Laws and fully supported all military decision made by the Athenian demos stood up and held up a parchment.

“How old are these laws, Sophist?”

The arrogant philosopher smirked quite sardonically and smugly replied, “Merely a hundred years as they were invented by that rabblerouser Pericles who was inspired by Lycurgus.”

“Wrong. It’s been 220 years since Draco created them. If it was only a mere century years old and Lycurgus, as you say, inspired them... then the Ionian poleis would not be democratic as they are today.”

The Orator was visibly shaken, and dropped his copy of the Republic. He stormed out of the Ecclesia crying those sophist crocodile tears. The same tears oligarchists cry for the “nobles” (who today live in such luxury that most own at least 500 slaves) when they jealously try to claw and cut the wages of fleet-rowers and jurymen. There is no doubt that at this point our Philo““““““sopher”””””, Xenocrates, wished he had pulled himself up by his sandalstraps and become more than a sophist oligarchist orator. He wished so much that he had hemlock to poison himself from embarrassment, but he himself had petitioned against them!

The Athenian citizens applauded and held vote for the new elections of the Strategos that day and accepted Athenian democracy as their lord and savior. An owl named “Solon” flew into the room and perched atop the pillar where the laws were written and shed a tear on the wax. The laws were read several times, and Athena herself showed up and enacted the planning for the construction 100 triremes.

The sophist lost his citizenship and was ostracized the next day. He died of the plague sent to him by Apollo and was tossed into the river Styx for all eternity.

I have read some of Plato's works in the past, but now want to read his complete works and hopefully progress to Aristotle. I recently read Jonathan Barnes' book on Early Greek Philosophy (Penguin Edition) to become familiar with these philosophers. This book did not cover the sophists. I was wondering if it would be worth reading about the Sophists before starting Plato; something along the lines of The Greek Sophists (Penguin again) by Dillon.

https://twitter.com/bmgilland/status/1407153290727493632

Aaron Rabinowitz (Embracing the void podcast) likes to attack James Lindsay and other antiwoke thinkers, and accuse them. He claims to be open to debate, but he and Sam Hoadley Brill (CUNY PHD student and acolyte of woke neoracist philosopher Charles Mills) shy away from Ovenjoybread's brilliant, devastating questions to which their only answer is to block

Yet Sam and Aaron constantly berate James Lindsay because he doesn't spend his entire day reading the rants of woke neoracists on Twitter. Despite the fact that he's made it perfectly clear that his primary focus is the Academy.

In sum: Ovenjoybread deserves a bigger platform and more support. The sheer quality of his analysis, brilliant Socratic demonstration of the Sophists' delusions, by exposing the gaps in their claims. Also, he's quite brilliant in unraveling obfuscation by his opponents.

I wish I could sustain his level of analysis in argument, be able to dissect the hidden flaws in a woke opponent's armor like OJB can. Is it sexist that I have always assumed OJB to be male? As if there's no intelligent female center leftists.

Wrote this article about how to actually apply Stoicism to the challenges of dealing with social media...

How to be Stoic on Social Media

Thanks for reading. Happy to hear any inputs.

Sonti The Sophist

Sonti was my friend. We were about the same height, though he had a slightly darker complexion than me and a chubby face. His long dark hair was combed and parted over his left eye. Strands of hair would fall over his right eye which he would flip with a twist of his head to bring them back over his head—a characteristic display of his irreverence.

I don’t know when he got the nickname “Sonti”. Maybe when we were in our second grade? I remember he fell from the mango tree at our school, fractured a bone in his right arm, and stayed at home for two months. When he came back to school he started learning to write with this left hand. As was the norm in our class we ridiculed him as “Sonti” (lefty). Whatever it was, the name “Sonti” stuck with us: only teachers at our school knew his real name. He made exaggerated claims about his struggles to learn to write with his left hand. But his other stories and claims captivated us even more.

Like that one time in our third grade he told us about how he learned to ride a bicycle by himself: His father had asked him to rent a bicycle at Kumar’s Bicycle shop near his house and bring it back home. “First I chose the Hero bicycle that was about this length,” he lifted his palm to his head, “and I asked Kumar if it was a good vehicle. Kumar assured me it was the best he had and wrote my name in his notebook. He said he knew my father. I tapped on the seat twice with my right palm—just to check if the seat was ok. I looked around the bicycle and the air pressure in the tires seemed fine. Then I simply got on the bicycle and slid my right leg to the other side of the pedal, and slowly lifted my left leg onto the left pedal and balanced myself. I fell twice, for sure. It didn’t hurt me. After two attempts, I easily rode it like a monkey riding the bicycle,” he briefly paused to let us imagine a monkey riding a bicycle, “and I crossed the Seven Bisons bridge where I had to carefully drive on the side to give way to the No.10 bus. When I reached home, I told my father that I parked the bicycle outside.” He narrated it all so casually, as if the whole event was just like another leaf falling from a tree: pre-ordained and inevitable. Ennai, Mottai, Doku, and I listened in awe to hear Sonti’s mini travelogue. For us a third grader riding a bicycle by himself was quite a feat—or so we thought, till Sonti told us that he learnt it the very first time, by himself!