Re:The Notion of “Trolling” in Ancient Sanskrit
by thwave on Sunday May 12, 2019 @10:58AM
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There's a nice parallel in Ancient Greek, and from there to modern philosophical parlance: Eristic[0]. Here's Plato, for example:
"it is on the purely verbal level that they look for the contradiction in what has been said, and employ eristic, not dialectic, on one another." (Republic V 454a, translated by Reeve)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eristic