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2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

13778	A dialectician is someone who knows how to ask and to answer questions [Plato]
	Full Idea: What would you call someone who knows how to ask and answer questions? Wouldn't you call him a dialectician?
	From: Plato (Cratylus [c.377 BCE], 390c)
	A reaction: Asking good questions and giving good answers sound like two very different skills. I presume dialectic is the process of arriving at answers by means of asking the right questions.