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TIL the famous Socrates quote about children being disrespectful and having bad manners was actually a fabrication written by a Canadian college student in 1907 (quoteinvestigator.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/til@lemmy.ca

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[–] Bea@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

For people not following, he was saying that if he was the corrupter of youths and weak-minded men, then everyone else must be improvers. Because not everyone else are improvers (logically speaking in this argument), it means many people were responsible for the corruption and he alone is not responsible.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The first statement isn't valid

[–] Bea@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

He was on trial.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 2 weeks ago

Still invalid