Comment on We lost Keanu
burgersc12@mander.xyz 5 days agoBut we have little context for how the words they used were meant. Even if all the scholars think it wasn’t literal doesn’t mean he didn’t mean it literally
Comment on We lost Keanu
burgersc12@mander.xyz 5 days agoBut we have little context for how the words they used were meant. Even if all the scholars think it wasn’t literal doesn’t mean he didn’t mean it literally
Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 days ago
Plato wasn’t writing in some long-dead obscure language that we only have vague translations of, it was Greek. It’s not a matter of interpretation.
burgersc12@mander.xyz 5 days ago
You can’t even intrepret my English correctly, how can we assume we know what was going through some dudes head several thousand years ago??
in4aPenny@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Communication isn’t what you say, it’s what the other person hears.