{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">But the art of sophistry, which the Greeks cultivated, is a fantastic\r\npower, which makes false opinions like true by means of words. For\r\nit produces rhetoric in order to persuasion, and disputation for\r\nwrangling. These arts, therefore, if not conjoined with philosophy,\r\nwill be injurious to every one. For Plato openly called sophistry\r\n“an evil art.” And Aristotle, following him, demonstrates it to be\r\na dishonest art, which abstracts in a specious manner the whole\r\nbusiness of wisdom, and professes a wisdom which it has not studied.\r\nTo speak briefly, as the beginning of rhetoric is the probable, and\r\nan attempted proof<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_873\" id=\"FNanchor_873\">[873]</a> the process, and the end persuasion, so the\r\nbeginning of disputation is what is matter of opinion, and the process\r\na contest, and the end victory. For in the same manner, also, the\r\nbeginning of sophistry is the apparent, and the process twofold; one\r\nof rhetoric, continuous and exhaustive; and the other of logic, and is\r\ninterrogatory. And its end is admiration. The dialectic in vogue in the\r\nschools, on the other hand, is the exercise of a philosopher in matters\r\nof opinion, for the sake of the faculty of disputation. But truth\r\nis not in these at all. With reason, therefore, the noble apostle,\r\ndepreciating these superfluous arts occupied about words, says, “If\r\nany man do not give heed to wholesome words, but is puffed up by a\r\nkind of teaching, knowing nothing, but doting (νοσῶν) about questions\r\nand strifes of words, whereof cometh contention, envy, railings, evil\r\nsurmisings, perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, destitute of\r\nthe truth.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_874\" id=\"FNanchor_874\">[874]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VIII. THE SOPHISTICAL ARTS USELESS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_874","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-700"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"71723e2e59000aca1a2a69b51e4c9d97793a83d1b8872133e69295b7db5591cc","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TI","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Tim. vi. 3–5","verse":3,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_874","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_874","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_874\" id=\"Footnote_874\">[874]</a> 1 Tim. vi. 3–5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_874","text_sha256":"446efb9c38480a5212e256d2110e1ade1a1e86a7c6111dc29ceb98c9aace6b83","verified":false,"work_id":null}