09-14-2020, 07:43 PM
(09-14-2020, 04:18 PM)Dill Wrote: Demonstrating that you understand the position you argue against has been a standard since Plato,
so in one form or another it has been said by many.
But you are not wrong. Mill argues to that effect in Chapter 2 of On Liberty, part of a critique of censorship/defense of free thought.
He takes it a step further adding that one doesn't "know" one's own views if one doesn't understand objections to them.
Four semesters of philosophy and I get a “you’re not wrong”. Better than I would have expected.
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