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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 0 points 4 days ago

Another of Plato’s mistakes was his weird methodological assumption that it is obligatory to define what something purely and ideally is before even trying to achieve it...

Not only that, but so often, what we envision is entirely different, when realized materially.