Only discourse communicates among its interlocutors.
Both served equally important roles in supporting mutual understanding among the interlocutors.
(Meno does not re-appear in Phaedo; Timaeus was not among the interlocutors of Republic).
And (less obviously) in many other cases he is in effect still working in this dialogue-mode, only without bothering to distribute the positions among different interlocutors explicitly, and so is again really innocent of inconsistency (examples of this occur in How Philosophy and This Too).
(Kenneth Burke, Allen Tate, Conrad Aiken and Edmund Wilson were among his closest interlocutors).
But U.S. diplomats and commanders argue that they played a crucial role, acting as interlocutors among the factions — and curtailing Maliki's sectarian tendencies.
Yet, among my Chinese interlocutors, I find a growing feeling that what's worked for China for the past 30 years — a huge Communist Party-led mobilization of cheap labor, capital and resources — will not work much longer.
The terrorist attacks of 9/11 and the war on terror have hardened prejudice and suspicion on all sides; now more than ever it is necessary for Western intellectuals to find real interlocutors among Muslim thinkers and activists.
So in question 76 Thomas argues for the complete unity of soul with body against various alternative positions to be found among his contemporary theological interlocutors.
This may seem crude and excludes cases of non-literal language use, lying, cheating and error from the start, but it may serve to rationalize common patterns of pragmatic reasoning among cooperative, information-seeking interlocutors.
