Socrates recounts a day at the Lyceum when two brothers, the sophists Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, show off their art of refuting any answer with verbal tricks before the young Cleinias. Their absurd arguments alternate with Socrates’ own gentle exhortation to wisdom, and Jowett introduces the piece as perhaps the oldest treatise on logic.
Plato at his funniest, and a catalogue of fallacies Aristotle would later classify. Download the free EPUB.