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Full Idea
We need to use every argument we can to fight against anyone who does away with knowledge, understanding, and intelligence, but at the same time asserts anything at all about anything.
Gist of Idea
We must fight fiercely for knowledge, understanding and intelligence
Source
Plato (The Sophist [c.358 BCE], 249c)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Sophist', ed/tr. Bernadete,Seth [University of Chicago 1986], p.43
A Reaction
Thus showing that reason is only central if you want to put a high value on it?