Socrates: "... People find it difficult to agree on exactly what is it they’re talking about, and this makes it hard for them to learn from one another and so bring their conversations to a mutually satisfactory conclusion. What happens instead, when two people are arguing about something, is that one person tells the other that he’s wrong or has expressed himself obscurely, and then they get angry and each thinks that his own point of view is being maliciously misinterpreted by the other person, and they start trying to win the argument rather than look into the issue they set out to discuss…”
Plato - Gorgias
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people dont seem to have changed much over time
(by the way your second comment on my blog was so funny I was laughing all by myself- loubie bzeit!)
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wow....Socrates got it so right....that's what happen with people arguing all the time...
nice blog.
I was thinking EXACTLY that just two days ago! Man Socrates and I are so alike... :)
haida Socrates akeed 2arit l fikra minnak :)
So right. Especially if the person you're arguing with strongly believes that he/she is never wrong.I like the pictures you have up on your personal site, friends, childhood, family, scenery, all , lovely.
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