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Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth
As I said earlier, with the Socratic method you can show that virtually any definition or distinction does not hold up perfectly. I think the second one is probably an exception due to long established, well settled tradition. I don't know how to explain the first.
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+ the Socratic is about conceptual and fluid terms, like "justice", not redefining a clearly known word or pretending it does not mean what it has been widely used to mean. The Socratic doesn't pick apart every word ever used. If an argument hinges on pretending a word means the opposite of what the word has been commonly used to mean for decades, it is not a logical argument.