Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:03:43 +0300
From: debbie <debey-AT-mscc.huji.ac.il>
Subject: Re: Sophists


Unleesh-AT-aol.com wrote:
> 
> 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??


Funny, I always thought that Plato's _Gorgias_, with all its ironies, is
the best formulation of these very questions.

Debbie