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echo: philos
to: DAY BROWN
from: DAVID MARTORANA
date: 1998-04-10 00:07:00
subject: `Curable Souls`

 @@> On Apr-8-98 Day Brown wrote to David Martorana
 @@> on "Curable Souls"
 
 DM>> ... To start with, did he actually consider the oracle at Delphi
 DM>> a legitimate/true source of information?
 
 DB> I dunno; for sure, the Oracle deserves a lotta respect.  So far as
 DB> I can tell, she was never wrong.
                                 .....Brilliant! ...Reasoned? ...Faith?
 
 DB> ..................................You always got the right answer,
 DB> but you did not know the right question until much later.  There's
 DB> only one reply of hers that I know of which Plato quotes- namely a
 DB> statement that Socrates was the wisest of all men.  I dunno if she
 DB> referred to only living men, or not.  If not, there's little doubt
 DB> that she was, indeed, correct.  Even if you include all men of all
 DB> time, you still got a pretty good case.
 
 
                             @@>--- Dave
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