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minus-squareburgersc12@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-212 days agoEven if all the scholars think it wasn’t literal doesn’t mean he didn’t mean it literally, that could just be how we have been interpreting it
minus-squareConfused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoPlato wasn’t writing in some long-dead obscure language that we only have vague translations of, it was Greek. It’s not a matter of interpretation.
minus-squareburgersc12@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days agoYou can’t even intrepret my English correctly, how can we assume we know what was going through some dudes head several thousand years ago??
minus-squarein4aPenny@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·11 days ago You can’t even intrepret my English correctly Communication isn’t what you say, it’s what the other person hears.
Even if all the scholars think it wasn’t literal doesn’t mean he didn’t mean it literally, that could just be how we have been interpreting it
Plato wasn’t writing in some long-dead obscure language that we only have vague translations of, it was Greek. It’s not a matter of interpretation.
You can’t even intrepret my English correctly, how can we assume we know what was going through some dudes head several thousand years ago??
Communication isn’t what you say, it’s what the other person hears.