Logos & Lore
“As the whole of nature is akin, and the soul has learned everything, nothing prevents a man, after recalling one thing only — a process men call learning — from discovering everything else, if he is brave and does not tire of the search; for searching and learning are, as a whole, recollection.” — Plato, Meno 81d (trans. Grube).
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The Idea
“Our discussion will be adequate if its degree of clarity fits its subject matter, since we should not seek the same degree of exactness in all accounts. … The educated person seeks exactness in each area to the extent that the nature of the subject allows; for it is just as mistaken to demand demonstrations from a rhetorician as to accept merely persuasive arguments from a mathematician.” — Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics I.3, 1094b–1095a (trans. Irwin).