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The lecture's implied model of language made by cave prisoners naming appearances rather than reality.
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The lecture's implied model of language made by cave prisoners naming appearances rather than reality.
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"Okay? Clear so far? All right. So this is the Allegory. Imagine a cave deep under the earth, okay? There's a cave. Now in..."
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"...And they start naming things that they see and that creates language. And they like to play games and try to figure out who..."
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A source-grounded reading of the lecture's central turn: Socrates attacks democracy by exposing the weakness of language and reason, then Plato rescues Socrates by turning the cave into a martyr story, a Christian universe,...
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