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On Socrates' Wisdom

A chreia exploring Socrates' famous statement about knowing nothing.

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Yotam, Kris · Apr 2025

Yotam, Kris. (Apr 2025). On Socrates' Wisdom. krisyotam.com. https://krisyotam.com/progymnasmata/chreia/on-socrates-wisdom

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They walked on, thinking of This and That, and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap, which is sixty-something trees in a circle; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four, not even when he had tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it. Being enchanted, its floor was not like the floor of the Forest, gorse and bracken and heather, but close-set grass, quiet and smooth and green... Sitting there they could see the whole world spread out until it reached the sky, and whatever there was all the world over there was with them in Galleons Lap.
The House at Pooh Corner (A. A. Milne)
Kris Yotam
Kris Yotam
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