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From: magicrat@world.std.com (Gwendolyn M Piper)
Subject: Re: Wisdom...
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Date: Thu, 1 Dec 1994 07:18:10 GMT
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mark gerald ford (mgford@silver.ucs.indiana.edu) wrote:
: >He who knows not and knows that he knows not is lost. Guide him.
: I believe this is close to Socrates' definition of the wise man, not the
: lost man. Would anyone agree with the Socraitic notion that wisdom is 
: knowing that you'll never know completely, but always striving to know 
: completely (with the assumption that the knowledge you possess now amounts 
: to 'nothing')? Isn't this what Socrates' preached and lived?     
: --Mark F.
:  
I don't know.
I used to not know that I didn't know that, 
but now that i know, 
I just don't know what i don't know anymore.

Y'know?

magic rat









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