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Agreed. Bertrand Russel wrote of the Sophist Georgias, “We do not know what his arguments were, but I can well imagine that they had a logical force which compe
by ycombinete 2y ago
Agreed. Bertrand Russel wrote of the Sophist Georgias, “We do not know what his arguments were, but I can well imagine that they had a logical force which compelled his opponents to take refuge in edification.”
Positions that make me feel indignant, or viscerally repulsed, are often ones that I simultaneously don’t like and also have no argument against. (Moral Relativism, for example.)