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Zaine comments on Open Thread, June 2-15, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Zaine 10 June 2013 11:54:22PM 0 points [-]

If something was divine, then it was under the domain of the gods; I was making a simple extrapolation.

Comment author: [deleted] 11 June 2013 12:00:04AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, but that's not a sound inference, given the context. No mention is made there of the gods, and the context pulls wide away from reading 'divine' in terms of traditional Greek mythology. I see no reason to think Socrates (or Plato) thinks any of that stuff was real.