By playing this dialectical game he can appear to present contrary views as their respective proponents might and then expose the errors of those he opposes, leading the readers to accept his own conclusions.
It's not just enough to be interested in ideas, therefore; to count as a public intellectual (or PI, for short) one must participate in debate to clarify issues, expose the errors of other public intellectuals, draw attention to neglected issues and generally vivify public discussion.
In the First Critique, Kant takes great pains to expose the errors that may arise from theoretical reason's quest for the unconditioned condition.
On the substantial and non-Pyrrhonian readings, Wittgenstein is not only presenting a method for exposing the errors of traditional philosophers, but also showing how philosophy should rightly be done and thereby offering positive philosophical views, views which must often be inferred or reconstructed from an elusive text.
First, it is a narrative in which Aristotle gradually develops his own views by exposing the errors of those who investigated nature before him; it is structured as presenting an alternative to views expressed by Empedocles and Democritus, and as in the spirit of Socrates (642a24 31).
He corrects the errors after exposing the errors.
Raz does not claim that those social goods are generally the objects of group rights, but he does expose the error of supposing that an antagonism towards collective considerations is somehow built into the very idea or purpose of individual rights.
I was nervous I'd say the wrong thing, expose the error of my presence.
If the number of events while unexposed is large compared with the number a of events while exposed, the standard error of the log rate ratio is simply √(1/a).
His crusade is to expose the police errors that let Robert Napper kill again: he is taking his claim for compensation to the European Court of Human Rights.
