The questions were allowed. The answers were not.
The plate separates permission to ask from permission to answer.
SteelMan: Asymmetric speech rules can permit inquiry and forbid conclusions.
Cut: The plate does not show the questions or the forbidden answers.
‘It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.’ Voltaire, as cited. Established authorities.
The plate applies the line to present authorities.
SteelMan: The line is a standard caution about orthodoxy.
Cut: The plate does not show that the authorities are wrong.
He came to argue with words.
The plate presents speech as the method.
SteelMan: Argument by words is the alternative to other methods.
Cut: The plate does not identify the speaker or the outcome.