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Tao Stoic 187

"How can a man start teaching with a couple of un-truths Master? Is not truth either the sole object, or else one remains silent?

"I do not know who you have in Mind, but certainly truth is the sole criterion for teaching, followed by theories that have a great likelihood of being true."

"I speak of Brown, who begins his book about 'Techniques of Persuation' with: 'Attempts to change the opinions of others are older than recorded history true, and originated it must be supposed untrue, with the development of speech untrue'."

"You'l find that the rest of the book also is somewhat slapdash, or even pub-talk. No insight in Ideation Theory. He clearly is from the pseudological camp, thus his recorded facts may be true, his grasp of the basics is poor, if not crooked, by pseudology. No reason to throw the book away, or burn it, it might make you 'Think'."


Ven 2005-01-24