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fogetti on April 5, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Second-Order Thinking: What Smart People Use to Ou...

Ordinary people don't like when they are getting asked "And then what?"

Socrates kept asking questions. That was his defining characteristic. We know how that went...

pojzon on April 5, 2019 [–]

I think the story of socrates has repeated itself multiple times over the course of history.

Very often men who were ahead of their times were prosecuted for being right.

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