Sublime

articulate, in the most positive terms, the reasons your opponent holds these views.

…a philosopher by training, I, too, am prone to regard reality as thin fodder for theorization. Yet as dull and distasteful as the facts may be, they make up the edifice on which principles are erected…

As for the argument that, if each man is the measure of all things, one man is as wise as another, Socrates suggests, on behalf of Protagoras, a very interesting answer, namely that, while one judgement cannot be truer than another, it can be better, in the sense of having better consequences. This suggests pragmatism.I

propose premises that support their conclusions,

premises only make the conclusion probable,

One of the conclusions arrived at is that the rulers must be philosophers.

moves from your opponents’ own premises to a denial of one of their key claims—a case of logically “killing with kindness”.

authority

Sophia