Re: Times 110

Richard Gabriel (silas75@hotmail.com)
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 19:36:07 PST

>> >Plato had better words for you, because you don't follow the
argument,
>> >you just flame each statement of mine in turn.
>>
>> Umm, that's called debate. Socrates (so Plato claims) argued like
that.
>> Except in a classier mode, but that's b/c he was dealing with people
>> cleverer than thou. :)
>
>It's not a debate when you ignore what I'm saying, which is exactly
>what you did when you flamed my statement showing that I have no
>special influence by asking me "Do 2 wrongs make a right?"

It's debate when Ignore you lies and half-truths and attack the weakest
points: those points that undermine the main argument--if there is a
coherent one in your case.

>Neither Socrates nor Plato argued like that.

Well, since you know so much you would know that we don't KNOW how
Socrates argued. The ONLY record we have is Plato's word.

Hello, Mcfly....Go read a book.

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