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inkan · 2w
The discussion here justifies a bit Plato: . . . Socrates: Enough appears to have been said by us of a true and false art of speaking. Phaedrus: Certainly. Socrates: But there is something yet to ...
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We’re humans. We exist on stories. On the fleeting occasions when we can glimpse a truth, our imperfect languages fail us when we attempt to convey it to others. Our troubles begin when our wonderous stories tip over into dogma, usually because a charismatic person chooses to enforce it on others as “truth.”
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inkan · 2w
In this case I guess it's just a story that I read that was told by Plato about a conversation between Phaedrus and Socrates in which Socrates says that there was a myth told by the ancients according to which there was this conversation between two Egyptian gods in the city of Naucratis.