The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies by David Stove
By Jon Hersey
Oxford: Basil Blackwell Ltd., 1991.
209 pp. $54 (hardcover).
In 1985, Australian philosopher David Stove held a contest to identify “the worst argument in the world”—the one that was the most terrible, widely accepted, and sheltered from criticism. He declared himself the winner for the following:
We can know things only:
as they are related to us
under our …
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