Date: 360-355 B.C.
"When we are babies we must suppose this receptacle empty, and take the birds to stand for pieces of knowledge."
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Date: 360-355 B.C.
"Perhaps, Socrates, we were wrong in making the birds stand for pieces of knowledge only, and we ought to have imagined pieces of ignorance flying about with them in the mind."
preview | full record— Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)