Socrates is not using dialectic to understand rhetoric, he is using it to destroy it, or at least to bring it into disrepute, and so his questions are not real questions at all-they are just word-traps which Gorgias and his fellow rhetoricians fall into. (Robert M. Pirsig)

Socrates is not using dialectic to understand rhetoric, he is using it to destroy it, or at least to bring it into disrepute, and so his questions are not real questions at all-they are just word-traps which Gorgias and his fellow rhetoricians fall into.

Robert M. Pirsig

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