Mere Disputation and Dialectic

The vox Protagorus from Plato’s Theaetetus: But I must beg you to put fair questions: for there is great inconsistency in saying that you have a zeal for virtue, and then always behaving unfairly in argument. The unfairness of which I complain is that you do not distinguish between mere disputation and dialectic: the disputer may trip up …

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