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111Thomas Vavasour — Thomas Vavasour † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Thomas Vavasour English Catholic physician, pensioner of St. John s College, Cambridge, b. about 1536 7; d. at Hull, 2 May, 1585. On 25 June, 1549, at the disputations held before the king s… …
112sophisticalness — noun The quality or state of being sophistical. Syn: sophistry …
113captious — adjective Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections. But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride. Syn …
114sophistic — adjective Sophistical …
115sophistically — adverb In a sophistical fashion …
116Ancient Greek philosophy — Raphael s School of Athens, depicting an array of ancient Greek philosophers engaged in discussion. Ancient Greek philosophy arose in the 6th century BCE and continued through the Hellenistic period, at which point Ancient Greece was incorporated …
117Outline of logic — The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to logic: Logic – formal science of using reason, considered a branch of both philosophy and mathematics. Logic investigates and classifies the structure of statements and… …
118Antiphon — (c. 480–411 BC) Athenian orator and Sophist . Scholars have disagreed whether there are two Antiphons or whether, as is now generally believed to be the case, the orator is identical with the Sophist. The oratorical Antiphon had a distinguished… …
119Aristotle — (384–322 BC) Along with Plato the most influential philosopher of the western tradition, Aristotle was born at Stagira in Macedonia, the son of Nicomachus, the court physician to the Macedonian king Amyntas II. At the age of 17 he entered Plato s …
120Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus — (c. 475/480–524) Roman philosopher and theologian. Born in Rome of an aristocratic family, the son of a consul (and father of two more), Boethius served as consul and the principal minister for Theodoric the Ostrogoth, who ruled Italy from 493 to …
