Philip Thomas <address@hidden> writes:
On Thursday 12 July 2012 David Kastrup wrote:
The Debian ad goes to a bit more effort than depicting an arbitrary
snapshot of a woman in a swimsuit. And I still don't see them pulling
this off convincingly either.
I can imagine,
speaking for myself but not for St Thomas Aquinas, that many ways of
pulling a bikini off -- assuming the wearer has
agreed to that course of action -- might be convincing from at least
some perspective.
There is a fine line between having been convinced and being convinced.
Thomas Aquinas could have expressed this distinction with "persuadere ut
..." as opposed to "persuadere" with an a.c.i.