re: #777 Slumbering Behemoth

Obviously, you know more about the art and history of debate then I do.

I used the term “Socraticaly” because I understood (perhaps inaccurately?) that one of his methods of debate was to feign ignorance with his questioning in such a way that he could get his debate opponent to invalidate their own position with their answers.

This is a style I’ve heard of in passing somewhere. Seriously, what I know of classical debating techniques couldn’t even fill a eighth of an issue of Reader’s Digest.

It seemed to me that Sal’s argument could be used in such a way.

In the method that you describe, Sal’s argument would work well on many.