The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on larg...e topics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
where there are no criteria for misjudging (or to put it more accurately, where in the crucial cases the criteria for misjudging t...urn out to be the same as the criteria for misnaming) then to say we are infallible is to pay ourselves an empty compliment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Openmindedness should not be fostered because, as Scripture teaches, Truth is great and will prevail, nor because, as Milton sugge...sts, Truth will always win in a free and open encounter. It should be fostered for its own sake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. ...But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »