11-27-2009, 06:37 AM | #11 | |
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Plato used the abstract, but if he did Plato (and his Socrates) always ended up taking the abstract to the concrete, to actual situations where the ideas were applicable. As a guide for this he made a difference between true knowledge and false knowledge, the latter being an oxymoron as there is no such thing as false knowledge: It isn't knowledge if it is false. If you are confused about the concept of truth Gwaimir read Gorgias, a good introduction to the concept of truth in philosophy.
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