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But we have little context for how the words they used were meant. Even if all the scholars think it wasn’t literal doesn’t mean he didn’t mean it literally

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Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Plato wasn’t writing in some long-dead obscure language that we only have vague translations of, it was Greek. It’s not a matter of interpretation.

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- burgersc12@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You can’t even intrepret my English correctly, how can we assume we know what was going through some dudes head several thousand years ago??
  
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  - in4aPenny@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    You can’t even intrepret my English correctly
    
    Communication isn’t what you say, it’s what the other person hears.
    
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