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[from 'fragments/reports' by Epicurus, in 2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic ]

Full Idea

Epicurus despises and laughs at the whole of dialectic.

Clarification

'Dialectic' is the impersonal pursuit of truth

Gist of Idea

Epicurus despises and laughs at the whole of dialectic

Source

report of Epicurus (fragments/reports [c.289 BCE]) by M. Tullius Cicero - Academica II.30.97

Book Reference

Cicero: 'De Natura Deorum and Academica (XIX)', ed/tr. Rackham,H. [Harvard Loeb 1933], p.591