If you downplay this fact, and underestimate just how very flat the Earth in fact is -- i.e. overestimate the curvature of the Earth, and therefore underestimate its circumference -- you will be wrong Really really wrong, in a very important way
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I'm going to hot-take this -- James and his friends love to throw around the term "sophistry" as a negative And honestly in the cartoonish version of Socrates vs the Sophists we were given by Plato, I'm kinda with the Sophists
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Socrates' whole "I'm gonna own this guy so hard" shtick in the dialogues is unbearable and it's really clear the books are written to paint his enemies in the worst possible light There's a reason Aristophanes portrayed him as a buffoon in his play The Clouds
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Grammar, logic and rhetoric are tools You use them to get better at talking to people and at doing things They can't actually tell you what to do or what to believe, and the idea that that shit would be obvious if you just kicked out all the liars and deceivers is childish
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Man is, in fact, the measure of all things Who else is there to do the measuring
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