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Academic?

Yes.

My OP topic is a claim to philosophy in general, not just logic I can't see where you made any claim at all in the OP.

Socrates was the the main character of Euthydemus. Socrates' career was a battle against sophistry. "Main character" is correct.

Socrates' career was a battle against sophistry...This is basic stuff. Yes, it is very basic. My ignorance is largely attributable to the fact that my freshman year in university was many years ago, and memory naturally fades wrt trivia. My undergraduate degree is in Philosophy, as is the graduate degree I'm working on now. Plato, not Socrates, wrote the Euthydemus. Philosophers and historians do not generally consider Plato's dialogs to be decisive as to what Socrates said or did, and it is generally accepted that Plato put his own ideas into the mouth of the character he called "Socrates". Only when there is corroboration from independent sources do the researchers tentatively hold that such-and-such was probably said or done by Socrates, as he never wrote anything.


Is this an example of the dubiousness of the link below? Petitio Principii. You have yet to establish that there is anything dubious about the link, but are tacitly asking us to proceed on the assumption that you have.


Ingnorance of the history of philosophy? So it would seem. Or perhaps lack of familiarity with how it is done.

Tag. You're it.