Here are some further questions, taking off from the quotations that were presented.

1) In Plato's dialogue "Gorgias" Socrates says that he would be happy to be refuted, if that led the discussion towards the truth. Is this a common attitude in the blogosphere? What kind of arrangement of comments and process of deliberation would make it possible to have this attitude be more effective? Or is such an attitude the wrong one for an advocacy blog set? Read more…