The two ways we reason are either founded on an inference or a relation of ideas. I feel as if the underlying debate between Sophists and Plato is where the stamping of truth should lie; which form of reasoning leads us to old and knew truths. Sophists are those who use language to convey ideas and explain knowledge to masses that has be obtained by sensory experience. The Sophists were viewed as manipulative because they were teaching knowledge primarily political knowledge, to masses of audiences who had little knowledge in the foundation of any subjects being taught by Sophist. This allowed for people to be swayed easily into believing what they were told because the Sophist telling these truths were well spoken and ended up convincing the less education about anything it seemed.
Plato was sure that knowledge was an art of feeding the soul truths. "The nature of good rhetoric that encourages wings to grow must be explored carefully." Plato express his views on rhetoric best through his dialogue, Gorgias. Socrates is the main character in the dialog and he stresses to 3 different sophist, his opposing views about the exchange of knowledge through rhetoric. Socrates felt that ideas should be analyzed and use. Then he only felt that we should compartmentalize these different truths to work in harmony with others when the knowledge was useful to share and implement.
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