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Which Is Which?
Reis, Lincoln | July 18, 1934 issue

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This article critically appraises the book "Reality and Illusion," by Richard Rothschild. The contempt for philosophy discovers its seat in the presumption of the sophist, not in the severity of the philosopher. It is the sophist who would persuade us to wisdom or to his doctrine by means of rhetoric rather than of reason, and who, to flatter our vanity and perhaps his own, would name his enthymemes demonstration and his prejudices insight. Among the untutored, however, the sophist gains and will always gain an audience, since sophistry, like art in the conception of Richards, consists in the satisfaction of impulse, and the forms in which this satisfaction would express itself change with the moment and the place.

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REALITY & Illusion (Book); BOOKS & reading; CRITICISM; ROTHSCHILD, Richard; PREJUDICES; LITERATURE
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