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Ideas for 'Frege's Concept of Numbers as Objects', 'Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature' and 'Sophistical Refutations'

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

2677	Dialectic aims to start from generally accepted opinions, and lead to a contradiction [Aristotle]

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The best way to understand a philosophical idea is to defend it [Wright,C]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 3. Eristic

2674	Competitive argument aims at refutation, fallacy, paradox, solecism or repetition [Aristotle]

2556	Rational certainty may be victory in argument rather than knowledge of facts [Rorty]