... major philosophical skeptics such as René Descartes and Protagoras with Socrates, I will argue that Socrates is in fact a skeptic. As seen in Plato's Protagoras, Socrates enjoyed questioning Protagoras for what Protagoras believed in and what he thought he could teach to audiences and most importantly, to his students ... I said to myself, you will be detected; now you will find out that you are more ignorant than they are." (Socrates in Plato 6) Here we see that he genuinely believes that people in their specific areas of expertise will be wiser than he himself is. He wants to ... also...

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... experiences have, at most, a grade of possibility. They are not true. However, the objects of the experience are a phenomenon that causes changes to the physical world, concluding that the objects of experience are the actual objects of knowledge. In the theory of recollection that Plato exposed to the Republic during the discussion about the images of divisible lines and the cavern myth, he distinguishes two different levels of knowledge: opinion and fact ... . These declarations and affirmations about the physical and visible world, including the observations and propositions of Scienc...

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