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Comment author: Günther_Greindl 09 June 2008 02:35:53PM 1 point [-]

Frelkins, the aspiring orator or public intellectual is someone who wants to impress people; he is engaging in a power game or vanity game etc.

A truth-seeker does not want to impress people, he or she or ve wants to know. Reason, as Eli said, is not a game.