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Thus far, the reading for my Principles of Technical Communication class feels very much like I'm back in Oxford, reading Plato and Aristotle and saying "NNNNGH I HATE YOUUUUUU!!!" to Ancient Greece. I don't really entirely dislike the Sophists...quite the contrary, I entirely see their purpose in a discussion about the fundamentals of technical communication, particularly with regard to audience considerations in any piece of writing. I have to question, however, the point of spending ~80 pages of reading talking about the Sophists and saying the same thing over and over again.
Plato was diametrically opposed to Sophists, and I've decided that I am too, if only because I have to read so much about them (and the fact that they were relativists, believing that truth depended on circumstances and background. As I'm an absolutist, it would never work out between us, Gorgias, I'm so sorry. Plato's an absolutist like I am, you see...we're simply meant to be). I got excited for half a second when I figured out why we're learning about them; now that I know we have to read anothr sprillion pages about them, I am no longer excited. I am tired. Why can't we just move onto Plato's Ion already? Sigh.
Plato was diametrically opposed to Sophists, and I've decided that I am too, if only because I have to read so much about them (and the fact that they were relativists, believing that truth depended on circumstances and background. As I'm an absolutist, it would never work out between us, Gorgias, I'm so sorry. Plato's an absolutist like I am, you see...we're simply meant to be). I got excited for half a second when I figured out why we're learning about them; now that I know we have to read anothr sprillion pages about them, I am no longer excited. I am tired. Why can't we just move onto Plato's Ion already? Sigh.