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Stephen Mulhall on Film as Philosophy

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The Importance of Rationality in Argumentation

Stephen Mohor: Film can present people saying things rigorously and precisely if they want to. But what one might be more interested in is the rigor and precision that's available to you when you use particularly cinematic resources, he says. The scene in Blade Runner between Leon and Deckard "is very precise and rigorous in its dialectic" 'Rigor and precision have more than one manifestation,' writes Mohor.

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