From: Unleesh-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 11:18:58 EDT
Subject: Re: Sophists


In a message dated 6/28/99 1:17:41 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
rooney-AT-tiger.cc.oxy.edu writes:

<< the sophist is one who values not wisdom, but the appearance
 thereof. >>

Ok, but how do we distinguish between the two? Doesn't the very distinction 
beg the question?  By the standards of whose truth? Or is that the very point 
of the definition??