Illusory Arguments by Artificial Agents: Pernicious Legacy of the Sophists

To diagnose someone’s reasoning today as “sophistry” is to say that this reasoning is at once persuasive (at least to a significant degree) and logically invalid. We begin by explaining that, despite some recent scholarly arguments to the contrary, the understanding of ‘sophistry’ and ‘sophistic’ un...

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Main Authors: Micah H. Clark, Selmer Bringsjord
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2024-05-01
Series:Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/13/3/82