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"Nobody Knows Anything": What Plato Discovered About the Limits of Human Knowledge
Socrates went to his death claiming ignorance. Twenty-four centuries later, we still haven't answered his question.
Socrates was executed for claiming ignorance. Plato spent fifty years circling the question his teacher raised at trial: what is knowledge, and can human beings have it? Twenty-four centuries later, surrounded by more information than Socrates could have imagined, we are still sitting in the cave.
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