A quote that stood out to me was in Intro to the Sophists where it says “The Sophists sought to call attention to the
function of language in inducing belief, rather than encouraging audiences to
give themselves up uncritically to its power to move and persuade.” I find this interesting because it urges us to think more intuitively and critically of things we hear before simply believing them and moving on.
I think his argument is that no form or subject of knowledge is actually free from the effects of language, so all human-produced knowledge is naturally incomplete and imperfect, "provisional".
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