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Having traveled from the turn of the Fourth Century B.C. to the turn of the Twenty-First Century A.D., Socrates has eagerly signed on as a Philosophy Now columnist so that he may continue to carry out his divinely-inspired dialogic mission.

Dear Socrates,

You are said not to favor the sophists. This is confirmed by the devastating attacks of your acclaimed and professed disciple, namely Mr Plato. I don’t mean to question your logic and less your being a genius, but sophists are clever, and that seems to me to be all that philosophy is about. That is the only real thing we may hope to attain in the long and endless quest for Truth. Don’t you think so?

Truly yours,
Said

Dear Said,

Thank you very much for your question.

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