“‘What a noble power it is, Glaucon,’ I said, ‘that antilogic has!‘
‘How so?’
‘Because a lot of people seem to me to fall into it unintentionally, and think they’re having a discussion when they’re really only point-scoring. It’s because they lack the ability to analyse what’s being said by distinguishing different kinds of thing; they set their sights on contradicting what’s been said, in a purely verbal way, thus engaging in competition with one another rather than in dialectic.’”
- Socrates and Glaucon in Plato's Republic, 454a ff
Antilogic
But without point-scoring, we'd have no politics! Hmm.... intersting thought. ;-) Great post. Thanks, Jannik!