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Knowledge is the grasp of the facts of reality.

Most of the ideas produced by Socrates / Plato / Aristotle were in fact wrong. They are not a good primer on epistemology, concepts, percepts, metaphysics or anything else. They're a good primer on the history of philosophy.

They inspired incredible progress on thinking and understanding, but they were wrong more often than they were right, and are a poor reference to understanding what knowledge is.



This is a contradiction:

"Knowledge is the grasp of the facts of reality." is was Socrates in an essence said about knowledge.

Then you say Socrates was wrong.




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