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one would do who chanced upon diagrams drawn with
special care and elaboration by Daedalus or some other craftsman or painter. For
anyone acquainted with geometry who saw such designs would admit the beauty of
the workmanship, but would think it absurd to examine them seriously in the
expectation of finding in them the absolute truth
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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