My First Sophistry When I

November 12, 2004 at 11:00 am (Uncategorized)

My First Sophistry

When I was in sixth grade a librarian told me that if I didn’t now how to spell a word I should look it up in a dictionary. I told her that her idea was absurd: because no one can look up a word in the dictionary unless they know how to spell it. After all, if I didn’t know how to spell it, how would I even know where to look?