History of philosophy
handsaw is a saw which we can use with our hand
· Socrates' reductio ad absurdum: A jews harp is neither a harp nor does it have anything to
do with Jews.
Socrates' Synthesis
Language is neither entirely
Plato 429-348 BC
Influenced by Heraclitus, the Eleatics, the Pythagoreans (Timaeus is said to be a veiled reference
to their ideas), Sophists, and Socrates (Nietzsche called Plato a Mischcharakter, a crossbreed)
Founder of the Academy of Athens, where mathematics, not philosophy, was the main subject.
Wrote in dialog form; Socrates was usually the main speaker in the dialogs.
Mathematics- what can be taught, polymath.
Meno, or On Virtue
- A slave boy is given a complicated geometrical problem to solve, and is able to do it even
without having ad instruction in the subject, because certain ideas are innate.
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