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The Story of Argument

A huge painted hall with arches, full of people in robes talking, reading and writing. Two older men walk together in the centre.
The School of Athens, painted by Raphael in about 1510. Plato and Aristotle walk in the centre.

Image: Raphael, The School of Athens (1509–1511), fresco, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City · Public domain

A Knaph story

The Story of Argument

How people learned to tell good reasons from loud voices

c. 440 BCE – today

A teacher sued by his own student, a dog at a crossroads, a king told to argue like a scholar and a tortoise who would not be convinced: how people learned what an argument really is.

A Knaph story

The Story of Argument

How people learned to tell good reasons from loud voices

c. 440 BCE – today

A teacher sued by his own student, a dog at a crossroads, a king told to argue like a scholar and a tortoise who would not be convinced: how people learned what an argument really is.

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