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RE: Do Chairs Exist?
September 26, 2021 at 6:21 am
Personally, I blame Plato for whole Atlantis thing. He should have prefaced those dialogues with a disclaimer. Lazy bugger.
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RE: Do Chairs Exist?
September 27, 2021 at 10:20 am
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(September 26, 2021 at 5:40 am)vulcanlogician Wrote: It's best to understand that even if Protagoras wasn't a die-hard relativist, Plato wrote a dialogue depicting the idea of relativism. He presented the idea and proposed arguments for and against it. He was a philosopher. Not a historian.
-and failed at that, spectacularly, as a philosopher. It even seems out of character for the arguments to be as bad as they are - but then you realize that it's tied up into
what he wishes to assert is
true. That his beliefs depended on the loopier arguments he made for them, in the context of strawmanning other philosophers and philosophies, lol.
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