...if not greater, intensity than even his own. What Cicero practised as the means of forensic success requires to be imitated by all who study any subject...knows only his own side of the case, knows little ofthat. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But he is equally unable...

...grounds and the content of their own opinions, but also the opinions on the other side of the question. "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that" (18:245). If there are not genuine intellectual opponents, then devil's advocates are needed, for without...

...degenerate into dead formulae; hence they gave a deeper understanding to those who held the right opinions. "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. "69 It was Mill's deep conviction that new ideas always came from minorities and from individual geniuses,...

...knew bat one ride of the question and was like the one of whom John Stuart Mill spoke, when he said: 'HE WHO KNOWS ONLY HIS OWN SIDE OF THE CASE KNOWS LITTLE OF THAT.' "After a careful study of the history of vaccination and toe extensive experience in its use, I am...

...understanding the reasons that support those beliefs but being able to refute the contrary reasoning of others. "He who knows only his own side of the case knows...refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring...

...still greater, intensity than even his own. What Cicero practised as the means of forensic success, nd effects, consisteth in the imposing of names, and...named, are every one of them individual and singu reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring...

...likely challenges. Mill suggested that this was not just good oratorical practice, but was something to be "imitated by all who study any subject in order to arrive at the truth" (1962, p. 163) - if not the truth, at least a truth which can withstand the most obvious criticisms....

...strength and validity. They become schools instead of tools with sharp cutting edges. In Mill's words, "He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." Later he writes, "Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy...

...disputed opinion consist in dispelling the appearances which favour some opinion different from it ... He who knows only his own side of the case knows little...refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring...

...Stuart Mill, a champion of human debate, writes, "What Cicero practiced as the means of forensic success requires to be imitated by all who study any subject...order to arrive at the truth. He who knows only his side of the case, knows little of that."22 Sometimes in a political debate two individuals simply represent...