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02 Jun 2008 03:44 pm
On Steyn
Ah, yes:
Isn't Socrates (whose writings we only have through Plato) generally considered a much better logician than rhetorician?
The Socratic critique of the Sophists was that their philosophy was overly dependent on rhetorical flourishes, with little underlying logical bedrock. I personally would have gone with "makes Dan Quayle look like Cicero."
But what do I know? I'm just a campus Marxist terrorist.
But then:
That was the single worst piece of op-ed writing I've ever had the
displeasure of reading. Obama beat Clinton because patriarchal Eastern
societies favor male babies? Right ...
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