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What bothers him, seemingly, is the supposed "will to believe" among modern scholars rather than the degree and nature of belief at various stages in antiquity; and behind that there lies the simpliste rational objection that because oracles are superstitious nonsense they couldn't possibly have "worked."

An Exchange on the Oracle Fontenrose, Joseph 1979

There is no reason why a comedy or a tragedy villain should not declare himself, and in as long a period as the author likes; but the sort of villain who may run on in this way is a simple villain (simple not simpliste).

Philip Massinger Thomas Stearns 1920

Not only therefore did he dissociate the concept of development of productive forces from any narrow economic meaning and from any simpliste material criteria, but he also suggested that socialism takes over this particular productive force from capitalism and builds upon it, that the basis of the development of the productive forces in a socialist society is a revolutionary proletariat.

MRZine.org 2009

[I will reiterate my main theme here that no issue is easy to address without a systematic theory, which I have already ruled out of court as too simpliste (see # 11)] 14.

Libertarian Blog Place 2008

_simpliste_ doctrines have been criticized almost to the point of extinction, but that no new all-embracing practical synthesis has taken their place.

Recent Developments in European Thought Various