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The statements: an issue that is complex but ultimately resolvable by the usual means of analysis. and All the rest is rhetoric. seem contradictory. What is the
by reedlaw 16y ago
The statements:
an issue that is complex but ultimately resolvable by the usual means of analysis.
and
All the rest is rhetoric.
seem contradictory. What is the usual means of analysis if not rhetoric?
- psykotic 16y agoI was employing the colloquial sense of 'rhetoric' in that final sentence. Had I instead used 'sophistry', someone would no doubt have rebutted my choice of words by justly remarking that the Sophists and that Protagoras guy were jolly good fellows. :)