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Rebecca Goldstein, Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away Quotes: Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
         

Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.


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Plato worried that philosophical writing would take the place of living conversations for which, in philosophy, there is no substitute.
         



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