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

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

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Comment author: Bound_up 25 June 2015 06:56:21AM 0 points [-]

Thank you, and I'll note the use of the Open Thread for future use.

Is there a word in the quote I can ctrl-f search for in Plato's Gorgias to find it quickly?

Comment author: Unknowns 25 June 2015 09:38:55AM 2 points [-]

It's going to depend on your particular translation. You might try searching for "refute", "refuted", "curing", "being cured". This is what it says in my version:

And what is my sort? you will ask. 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; 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.