• Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    12 days ago

    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.

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      12 days ago

      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??

      • in4aPenny@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        You can’t even intrepret my English correctly

        Communication isn’t what you say, it’s what the other person hears.