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Logic IV. 106
being concerned with Becoming [foreign text] knowledge with Essence or Being [foreign text]. Thus as Essence is to Genesis so is Knowledge to Opinion and as Knowledge is to Opinion so is Science to Faith and so is Understanding to Conjecture. 533E34A The dialectician is one who gets the reason of the essence: [foreign text] 534B. The remainder of [this] supero piece is extremely intersting but we must pass it by. The Phaedrus was composed immediately after the publication of the complete Republic. The general subject of the dialogue is rhetoric but it seems pretty plain that Plato thought that a dialogue ought to imitate the freedome and discurdiveness of a conversation in which people feel very little under obligation to adhere frankly to one subject but feel much more decidedly under an obligation not to do so too long. A goodly number of points of philosophy are touched upon perhaps we may say all of those in which Plato was particularly interested in

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