The first two pages of a 1989 book by George Steiner—
See also yesterday's posts The Field of the Possible
and Abstraction.
Compare and contrast with Socrates in the Meno
quoting Pindar then discussing with a slave boy
the duplication of the square.
Was Socrates a great philosopher or, as the above
figure seems to indicate and as some say of Steiner,
too clever by half ?
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