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Single Idea 2676

[catalogued under 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason]

Full Idea

Didactic arguments are those which reason from the principles appropriate to each branch of learning and not from the opinions of the answerer (for he who is learning must take things on trust).

Clarification

'Didactic' argument aims at converting people to a view

Gist of Idea

Didactic argument starts from the principles of the subject, not from the opinions of the learner

Source

Aristotle (Sophistical Refutations [c.331 BCE], 165b01)

Book Reference

Aristotle: 'Sophistical Refutations, On the Cosmos etc (III)', ed/tr. Forster,E.S. /Furley,D.J. [Harvard Loeb 1955], p.15