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Myth of the cave 2.0

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Sep 17, 2019
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The two most common things people know about Plato today are that he was a philosopher and that he was the author of the myth or allegory of the cave. You remember it well. A group of people living chained in a cave all their lives and watching on a wall projections of shadows cast by objects they can't see directly. The shadows constitute all that thos…

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