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Euthydemus

Plato · 384 BC

Plato's Euthydemus, translated by Benjamin Jowett, is a Socratic dialogue in which Socrates describes two sophists, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, who claim to teach virtue while refuting others through fallacious verbal arguments, satirizing eristic disputation.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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