The Origins of the Specious
Specious - [Middle
English, 15th century, from Latin speciosus: beautiful,
plausible] 1. obsolete:
showy; 2. having deceptive attraction or allure; 3. having a false
look of truth or genuineness: sophistic.
Sophistic - from the Sophists [Greek: sophistes,
literaly expert, or wise man; from sophizesthai,
to become wise, deceive; from sophos, clever, wise]
the 5th century BCE ancient Greeek teachers of rhetoric and philosophers
of the art of successful living, known for their adroit, subtle,
and allegedly
often specious reasoning. Sophist - a philosopher or thinker;
a captious or fallacious reasoner.
Sophisticate -
1. To alter deceptively; 2. To deprive of genuineness, naturalness,
or simplicity, esp
to deprive of naivty and make worldly wise: disillusion; 3. to
make complicated or complex, thus to
make highly developed. Sophisticated - 1. worldly wise,
knowing; 2. finely experienced and aware;
3. intellectually appealing. To be sophisticated implies
refinement, urbanity, cleverness, and cultivation.
Essays:
by Johnes
Ruta :
PSYCHLES OF TIME : The Nagging Question of Cyclic vs. Apocalyptic Time [a table]
PSYCHLES OF TIME : Original Thought vs. Original Sin [essay]
by
Rita Atkins :
Physics
is Only a Likely Story: Being Some Comments on Plato's Timaeus
Natural Science IV Lecture, Shimer College;
Mount Carroll, Illinois; Spring 1969.
by Carl Pfluger :
God vs. the Flying Saucers
Prophecy,
Memory, Millennium:
a
"pagan" Appeal for a more "secular" History
Historical Manuscripts
Cypriani
(4th century) -- On the Unity of the Church, On the Dress of Virgins,
On the Lapsed, On the Lord's Prayer
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0507.htm
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