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Full Idea
Test me, and let yourself be tested as well, by asking and answering questions.
Gist of Idea
We should test one another, by asking and answering questions
Source
Plato (Gorgias [c.387 BCE], 462a)
Book Ref
Plato: 'Gorgias', ed/tr. Waterfield,Robin [OUP World's Classics 1994], p.28
A Reaction
The idea must be to avoid wild speculation, by continually filtering ideas through rival critical intelligences. The best philosophical method ever devised.
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