Salemicus comments on The great quote of rationality a la Socrates (or Plato, or Aristotle) - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Bound_up 23 June 2015 03:55PM

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Comment author: Salemicus 24 June 2015 10:29:04PM 4 points [-]

Cicero wasn't Greek and is most known as a jurist and politician, not as a philosopher.

Comment author: Bound_up 25 June 2015 05:37:29PM 1 point [-]

Although I am momentarily embarrassed, " I am one of those who are very willing to be refuted if I say anything which is not true, and very willing to refute any one else who says what is not true, and quite as ready to be refuted as to refute-I for I hold that this is the greater gain of the two, just as the gain is greater of being cured of a very great evil than of curing another."