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  1. In this allegory the seeker, trying to reach the One, is drawn by two horses, one white and noble and temperate, and the other surly, stubb…
  2. No one sees it yet, but they will soon enough. The Chairman of the Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods has just been shot d…
  3. The bones of the Sophists long ago turned to dust and what they said turned to dust with them and the dust was buried under the rubble of d…
  4. When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relatio…
  5. Poor rhetoric, once 'learning' itself, now becomes reduced to the teaching of mannerisms and forms, Aristotelian forms, for writing, as if …
  6. Once it's stated that 'the dialectic comes before anything else,' this statement itself becomes a dialectical entity, subject to dialectica…
  7. Under Aristotle the 'Reader,' whose knowledge of Trojan arete seems conspicuously absent, forms and substances dominate all. The Good is a …
  8. Dialectic, which is the parent of logic, came itself from rhetoric. Rhetoric is in turn the child of the myths and poetry of ancient Greece…

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