Crossword-Solution: PROPOUNDER 10 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 15

SOCRATES: Your words, Euthyphro, are like the handiwork of my ancestor Daedalus; and if I were the sayer or propounder of them, you might say that my arguments walk away and will not remain fixed where they are placed because I am a descendant of his.

Wilt thou not take a draught out of my cup to help down all that dry meat?’ ‘Troth,’ said the stranger, stopping and looking at the friendly propounder, ‘that’s nae bad overture, as they say in the General Assembly.

Each such answer to the great question, invariably asserted by the followers of its propounder, if not by himself, to be complete and final, remains in high authority and esteem, it may be for one century, or it may be for twenty: but, as invariably, Time proves each reply to have been a mere approximation to the truth--tolerable chiefly on account of the ignorance of those by whom it was accepted, and wholly intolerable when tested by the larger knowledge of their successors.

Advanced as was the development of formal logic, that practical logic was wanting which could see that the last of a series of authorities, every one of which rested on those which preceded it, could never form a surer foundation for any doctrine than that supplied by its original propounder.

The individual who proposed the toast marked this omission, and pointed it out by saying-- "What's the matter, Harry? Is not the wine good?" The colour mounted to the young man's face as he replied, with a forced smile-- "Yes, much better than the sentiment." "What ails the sentiment?" asked the propounder of it, in a tone of affected surprise.