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prescribing food and drink would he want to outdo the medical man or the
medical procedure?” “Surely not.”
“But he would the unmedical man?”
“Yes.” “Consider then with regard to all1 forms of knowledge and ignorance whether you think that
anyone who knows would choose to do or say other or more than what another
who knows would do or say, and not rather exactly what his like would do in
the same action.” “Why, perhaps it must be
so,” he said, “in such cases.” “But
what of the ignorant man—of him who does not know? Would he not
overreach or outdo equally
1 Generalizing from the inductive instances.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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