{"id":343,"date":"2019-10-08T23:21:34","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T23:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2023-12-22T20:33:18","modified_gmt":"2023-12-22T20:33:18","slug":"sophistication-is-over-rated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/2019\/10\/08\/sophistication-is-over-rated\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophistication is over rated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ancient_Greece\">Ancient Greece<\/a>,\u00a0<em>sophia<\/em>\u00a0was the special\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insight\">insight<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poet\">poets<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prophet\">prophets<\/a>. This then became the wisdom of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philosophers\">philosophers<\/a>\u00a0such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sophists\">sophists<\/a>.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sophistication#cite_note-5\">[5]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0But their use of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhetoric\">rhetoric<\/a>\u00a0to win arguments gave sophistication a derogatory quality. Sophistry was then the art of misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3cqug2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3cqug2.jpg 612w, https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3cqug2-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/3cqug2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Ancient Greece,\u00a0sophia\u00a0was the special\u00a0insight\u00a0of\u00a0poets\u00a0and\u00a0prophets. This then became the wisdom of\u00a0philosophers\u00a0such as\u00a0sophists.[5]\u00a0But their use of\u00a0rhetoric\u00a0to win arguments gave sophistication a derogatory quality. Sophistry was then the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[124,141,140,134,139,4,145,144,8,12,137,142,143],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adult-meltdown","tag-cheetos-head","tag-clown","tag-eggplants","tag-hissy-fit","tag-horizontal-office-chair","tag-hotdog-combo","tag-i-love-mac-and-cheese","tag-meme","tag-memes","tag-sophistication","tag-wisdom","tag-yoda"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":345,"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizontalinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}