For Fri. 18APR08
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Kenneth J. Alford - Eagle Squadron
Today in Ancient History
[ante diem xiv kalendas maias]
ludi Cereri continue (day 7)
359 A.D. -- birth of the future emperor Gratian.
Today's WWFTD
scurryfunge [used in various senses with little obvious connection] also scurrifunge
Brit. dial. (jocular) a.) ? to scrub, scour, b.) ? to wriggle about
(also a Maine colloquialism?) a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor coming and the time she knocks on the door. - Paul Dickson, Words
elenctic [Gk elenktikos, fr. elenktos] /ee LENC tic/
variants elenchtic, elenctical, elenchtical serving to refute; refutative (used of indirect modes of proof)
opposed to deictic, showing or pointing out directly
"His duty is elenchtic." - Blackwood's Magazine, v. XXXIII (1833)
"Because he has spent so much of his life in elenctic argument, we are sometimes tempted to infer that Socrates knows more than he is letting on about the subject matter at hand." - Brickhouse & Smith, Plato's Socrates (1994)
Kenneth J. Alford - Eagle Squadron
Today in Ancient History
[ante diem xiv kalendas maias]
ludi Cereri continue (day 7)
359 A.D. -- birth of the future emperor Gratian.
Today's WWFTD
scurryfunge [used in various senses with little obvious connection] also scurrifunge
Brit. dial. (jocular) a.) ? to scrub, scour, b.) ? to wriggle about
(also a Maine colloquialism?) a hasty tidying of the house between the time you see a neighbor coming and the time she knocks on the door. - Paul Dickson, Words
elenctic [Gk elenktikos, fr. elenktos] /ee LENC tic/
variants elenchtic, elenctical, elenchtical serving to refute; refutative (used of indirect modes of proof)
opposed to deictic, showing or pointing out directly
"His duty is elenchtic." - Blackwood's Magazine, v. XXXIII (1833)
"Because he has spent so much of his life in elenctic argument, we are sometimes tempted to infer that Socrates knows more than he is letting on about the subject matter at hand." - Brickhouse & Smith, Plato's Socrates (1994)
