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Prince of #Serendipity. cf: #Synchronicity, #Poetry ♋ #publicsector #mystic #poet "Whoever discovers the interpretation of these sayings will not taste death."
The journey to the other world is not a single, straight path. There are many partings of the road. - #Socrates, in #Plato's ‘#Phaedo’
The history of formal logic, one excerpt at a time. We are currently visiting the pre-history of logic through Plato's "Theaetetus".
@ElsewhereFamous I didn't phrase my comment well, sorry 😅 I was thinking of a metaphysical question - "is it possible for a thought to come into existence if it didn't exist before". I recently read Plato's "Phaedo" and he more or less argues that certain of our thoughts
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@Femme_Queer Tbh, if I were to recommend one classical philosophical text about the soul and the body, it would probably be The Phaedo by Plato. It's short, dramatic, and some of the arguments it makes to prove the soul exists are pretty striking, even if you don't find them convincing.