Abstract

A say-what-you-believe requirement is often considered distinctive of how Plato’s Socrates engages with interlocutors, distinguishing his method and/or therapeutic aims from those of sophistic and eristic questioners. The treatment of SWYB in Aristotle’s Topics and Sophistical Refutations, however, challenges the notion that SWYB would have distinguished Socrates in the eyes of Plato’s earliest readers.