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DID SOCRATES KNOW NOTHING?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2010

Tibor R. Machan
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A familiar teaching about Socrates, based mostly on Plato's representation of the Athenian philosopher, is that he professed not to know anything. The only thing he knew, he is reported to have said, is that he knew nothing.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 9 , Issue 25 , Summer 2010 , pp. 85 - 87
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2010

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