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1908 Nov 11
Logic
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phical doctrines in the form of a dialogue involves no such
insincerity as you seem to think it does. I divide such (ex)
expositions, very unequally, into two great classes, according to the
way in which the plan is carried out. The first class, which em-
braces all the great philosophical dialogues, those of Plato, the
Italian works of the XVIth century, beginning with these of Pietro
Aretino, the perfect of all but Plato's from the literary point
of view, followed by those of Giordano Bruno, Gallileo, and many
others, then those of Berkeley and Shaftesbury's Moralists, either
narrate actual dialogues, or compress into one a number of dialo
such actual conversations. The different speakers were intended
to represent as many different ways of thinking that were current in the writer's
time; but in fact the dialogues were no doubt reminiscences of conversations

1908 Nov 11
Logic
25

phical doctrines in the form of a dialogue involves no such
insincerity as you seem to think it does. I divide such (ex)
expositions, very unequally, into two great classes, according to the
way in which the plan is carried out. The first class, which em-
braces all the great philosophical dialogues, those of Plato, the
Italian works of the XVIth century, beginning with these of Pietro
Aretino, the perfect of all but Plato's from the literary point
of view, followed by those of Giordano Bruno, Gallileo, and many
others, then those of Berkely and Shaftesbury's Moralists, either
narrate actual dialogues, or compress into one a number of dialo
such actual conversations. The different speakers were intended
to represent as many different ways of thinking that were current in the writer's
time; but in fact the dialogues were no doubt reminiscences of conversations