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> ”Only authors born 1900 or later are included.” Ah, that’s why Plato isn’t #1
by halfcat 2y ago
> ”Only authors born 1900 or later are included.”
Ah, that’s why Plato isn’t #1
- fsckboy 2y agoPlato cited Socrates a lot
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- gizajob 2y agoA series of footnotes to David Lewis doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.
- dredmorbius 2y agoFor the uninformed: "The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato." Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality, p. 39 [Free Press, 1979]; <https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/footnotes_plato.html https://www.age-of-the-sage.org/philosophy/footnotes_plato.h...> (There's a fair bit of truth to this.)