Next as to Interrogation. The best moment to a employ this is [1419a] when your opponent has so answered one question that the putting of just one more lands him in absurdity.
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- Oct 2013
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rhetoric.eserver.org rhetoric.eserver.org
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rhetoric.eserver.org rhetoric.eserver.org
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Since a given action can be done from many motives, the former must try to disparage it by selecting the worse motive of two, the latter to put the better construction on it.
This whole section just seemed super deceptive to me.
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- Sep 2013
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.net
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However, if it is my duty not only to rebuke others, but also to set forth my own views
Positive/negative view. Good strategy in philosophizing/arguing/rhetoric/whatever-we-are-calling-it
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caseyboyle.net caseyboyle.netGorgias2
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Some answers, Socrates, are of necessity longer; but I will do my best to make them as short as possible
I'm wondering if his preferred strategy is generally the opposite: long-winded answers to make the answer more obscure but partially visible.
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you praised it as if you were answering some one who found fault with it, but you never said what the art was.
Answered his question indirectly, didn't come outright and say it. Rhetorical strategy, sophist in nature?
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