Reason's Dark Champions: Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument

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REASON’S DARK CHAMPIONS STUDIES IN RHETORIC/COMMUNICATION THOMAS W. BENSON, SERIES EDITOR REASON’S Constructive Strategies of Sophistic Argument CHRISTOPHER W. TINDALE THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS DARK CHAMPIONS © 2010 University of South Carolina Cloth edition published by the University of South Carolina Press, 2010 Ebook edition published in Columbia, South Carolina, by the University of South Carolina Press, 2012 www.sc.edu/uscpress 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 The Library of Congress has cataloged the cloth edition as follows: Tindale, Christopher W. (Christopher William) Reason's dark champions : constructive strategies of Sophistic argument / Christopher W. Tindale. p. cm. — (Studies in rhetoric/communication) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-57003-878-5 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Sophists (Greek philosophy) 2. Reasoning. I. Title. B288.T56 2010 183'.1—dc22 2009034561 ISBN 978-1-61117-233-1 (ebook) For my former colleagues in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Ancient History and Classics atTrent University, in appreciation of many years of collegial support The Sophist runs away into the darkness of that which is not, which he has had practice dealing with, and he is hard to see because the place is so dark. Plato’s Sophist 254a ...