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Clifford's essay recalls a famous passage in Plato's Meno in which Socrates distinguishes between right opinion and knowledge.2 The man who has right opinion knows what is true but cannot give any reasons for it .
Clifford's essay recalls a famous passage in Plato's Meno in which Socrates distinguishes between right opinion and knowledge.2 The man who has right opinion knows what is true but cannot give any reasons for it .
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That the Prophet preached certain doctrines , and predicted that spiritual comfort would be found in them , proves only his sympathy with human nature and his knowledge of it ; but it does not prove his super- human knowledge of ...
That the Prophet preached certain doctrines , and predicted that spiritual comfort would be found in them , proves only his sympathy with human nature and his knowledge of it ; but it does not prove his super- human knowledge of ...
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We think in order to grasp meaning , but nonetheless every extension of knowledge makes us aware of blind and opaque spots , where with less knowledge all had seemed obvious and natural . A scientist brought into a new district will ...
We think in order to grasp meaning , but nonetheless every extension of knowledge makes us aware of blind and opaque spots , where with less knowledge all had seemed obvious and natural . A scientist brought into a new district will ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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