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This section is really the heart of The Socratic Dialectic. Without the interaction of random, rhetorically-inclined "surfers," one might as well merely read the book. (Ack.) Those of us involved in this project hope to spark several on-line debates and to evenually incorporate alternative views offered by philosophers and theorists throughout the ages. We welcome your comments and want you to draw on all your own unique experiences and studies to add life to these age old conversations.

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Instructions
Below is a list, alphabetically by e-mail address (the only information required to participate in a dialogue here) of all the repsonses received. You may respond to the participants in several ways.
You may e-mail them privately by clicking on their e-mail address.
You may respond directly to their arguments by clicking anywhere on those comments.
You may enter the dialogue at same the point that any contributor responded to by clicking on the reference number. Once you have entered the dialogue, you may respond to anything at any time.

E-mail addresses Ref. no. Arguments
benda@s867.thu.edu.tw Gorgias 57 Weaving is _not necessarily_ concerned with the making of garments only. One could make other things by weaving--decorations, for example.
bjeter@dfw.net Gorgias 59 Music, sir is concerned with the maturation of the soul.
daveR@utarlg.uta.edu
David Rieder, graduate student
University of Texas at Arlington Polus 311 Polus, Socrates is going to take you for a ride! All he is going to do is take your idea qua GENUS and devalue it to the level of a SPECIES. By doing this, he can subsequently set up a new genus by which to redescribe any notion you might have thought true.
dddavis@visi.net
Diane Davis, professor
Old Dominion University Gorgias 63 Rhetoric is not simply concerned with "discourse," which is, presumably what you'd like me to answer. It is, rather, a worldview. If a philosophic perspective would seek the truth, a rhetorical perception would look at how language is working to produce what functions as truth.
rimbaud1@juno.com
David D. Robbins, graduate student
Valparaiso University School of Law Gorgias 1 I may be a shoemaker, but as all humans, I am and contain many multitudes. That which you wish to call me is of no difference for I will always be those things which I am. As you will be what you will. In this I can profess being of many arts. But this too is of no difference because to profess may be to claim skill. My skill can only be judged by others. What I may profess as my skill may just be rendered mere folly in another's mind. What do you believe my skill to be?
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Instructions
Below is a list, alphabetically by e-mail address (the only information required to participate in a dialogue here) of all the repsonses received. You may respond to the participants in several ways. You may e-mail them privately by clicking on their e-mail address. You may respond directly to their arguments by clicking anywhere on those comments. You may enter the dialogue at same the point that any contributor responded to by clicking on the reference number. Once you have entered the dialogue, you may respond to anything at any time.
E-mail addresses	Ref. no.	Arguments
benda@s867.thu.edu.tw	Gorgias 57	Weaving is _not necessarily_ concerned with the making of garments only. One could make other things by weaving--decorations, for example.
bjeter@dfw.net	Gorgias 59	Music, sir is concerned with the maturation of the soul.
daveR@utarlg.uta.edu David Rieder, graduate student University of Texas at Arlington	Polus 311	Polus, Socrates is going to take you for a ride! All he is going to do is take your idea qua GENUS and devalue it to the level of a SPECIES. By doing this, he can subsequently set up a new genus by which to redescribe any notion you might have thought true.
dddavis@visi.net Diane Davis, professor Old Dominion University	Gorgias 63	Rhetoric is not simply concerned with "discourse," which is, presumably what you'd like me to answer. It is, rather, a worldview. If a philosophic perspective would seek the truth, a rhetorical perception would look at how language is working to produce what functions as truth.
rimbaud1@juno.com David D. Robbins, graduate student Valparaiso University School of Law	Gorgias 1	I may be a shoemaker, but as all humans, I am and contain many multitudes. That which you wish to call me is of no difference for I will always be those things which I am. As you will be what you will. In this I can profess being of many arts. But this too is of no difference because to profess may be to claim skill. My skill can only be judged by others. What I may profess as my skill may just be rendered mere folly in another's mind. What do you believe my skill to be?