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From the review: "It's almost like reading an Aesop's fable before the "real" chapter begins" The dialogue form of presenting arguments is traditional in philo
by robotresearcher 15y ago
From the review: "It's almost like reading an Aesop's fable before the "real" chapter begins"
The dialogue form of presenting arguments is traditional in philosophy.
http://plato-dialogues.org/plato.htm http://plato-dialogues.org/plato.htm
- JonnieCache 15y ago>traditional in philosophy. It's use in GEB is a tribute to Lewis Carroll's discussion of Zeno's Paradox, What the Tortoise Said to Achilles. This is itself a homage to the platonic dialogues.