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PLATONIC_ART

                                             May     31, 2010
                                             October 27, 2013

"An art I do not call it, but
only an experience, because it                               GORGIAS
is unable to explain or to give
a reason of the nature of its
own applications."

   Okay: we call things like this
   "science", (or perhaps an "educated            This might make more sense
   discipline"), and we use "art" to mean         (to us) if we took this
   almost the precise opposite -- art is          to mean that art has
   concerned with the mystery, the truths         purpose-- it's an act of
   that cannot be precisely stated (at            communication.  (Maybe.)
   least not yet, perhaps not ever).



"I do not call any irrational thing an
art; but if you dispute my words, I am               MADNESS
prepared to argue in defence of them."

  Socrates repeatedly hints that he understands
  there are other ways of understanding, but this
  is only a polite nod: really he believes his own
  understanding is the one true one.



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