Effective world-level disputation required languages, not just dialectic
Evidence
The debate encouraged the view that dialectical victory could be fairly easily achieved. But it also showed that dialectic must be supported by a knowledge of languages if it was to be effective at the level of world affairs. — R. W. Southern, Western Views of Islam in the Middle…, 316
Categorization
- SHARE: A neat point about the limits of logic without linguistic access — send to anyone working on rhetoric or epistolary craft.
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