Do you think Plato's dialogue format is an effective way to make an argument?

Yes

Explanation:

Socratic irony is used to weed out the good arguments from the bad by a method that is similar to the scientific method. That is, Socrates would ask a series of questions, and discard the arguments which became absurd when subjected to scrunity (reductio ad absurdum), eventually arriving at the correct conclusions.

frederick the great and the war of austrian succession. frederick william of brandenburg-prussia trained his son, frederick, to be a hardy soldier. he also declared himself king of bohemia, and maria theresa sent troops to retake bohemia. in august he led 80,000 of these men across the frontier into bohemia, his