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Single Idea 4321

[catalogued under 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 2. Elenchus]

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 Reference

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.