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>Person: I don't understand/believe [subject]
>Socrates: Let us examine it! (or something pretentious like that)
>Socrates: [question that is incredibly obvious]
>Person: Yes.
>Socrates: [another obvious question]
>Person: I agree.
>Socrates: [question veiled as a statement]
>Person: So it seems.
>Socrates: [yet another question, except this time with a bunch of arbitrary semantics to make it seem more complicated than it is]
>Person: I absolutely agree, Socrates.
>Socrates: Then it follows that [answer to original question]
>Person:You are a genius, Socrates, please allow me to fellate you and your seven wives and also your slaves

damn...so this...is the power...of western philosophy...

>> No.11094805

>>11094802
Tell me, anon, do you have a dog?

>> No.11094830

>every single example involves a physician
Come on Socrates, spice it up with a prostitute or something

>> No.11094922

>>11094805
yes, he's a real scamp

>> No.11094954

>>11094922
Does he scratch when he has fleas?

>> No.11094970

>>11094802
fucking low verbal iq pseud what a gay bait thread, could easily eviscerate Soc without being unintelligent and shitting all over your own leg in impotent overreaching

>> No.11095113

>>11094922
And he has puppies?

>> No.11095135

>>11094954
>>11095113
Yes!

>> No.11095143

Socrates had seven wives?

>> No.11095169

>>11094802
Wow, it's repetitive and predictable, almost like if he had a method or something. Who would've thought!

>> No.11095221

>>11095135
And the dog is the father of them?

>> No.11095259
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11095259

>>11094802
Fucking saved OP, gave me a kek

>> No.11095270

>>11095221
He is

>> No.11095334

>>11095270
And is he not yours?

>> No.11095367

>>11095334
Of course he is, by Jove!

>> No.11095375

>>11095367
Then he is a father, and he is yours; ergo, he is your father, and the puppies are your brothers!

>> No.11095386
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>>11095375

>> No.11095398

>>11095375
I'm annoyed that you want this meme to persist.
>My dog is my father
does not follow from
>my dog is a father

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11095469

>>11095398

how did you fit all these chromosomes into one little post?

>> No.11095497

>>11094802
Boy someone oughta slap the shit outta you.

>> No.11095502

Did he really have seven wives?

>> No.11095600

>>11095469
I don't understand your comment

>> No.11095606

>>11095600
Seems like you don't understand a lot of things.

>> No.11095813

>>11095143
No. Just one. But she was really annoying

>> No.11095838

>>11095600
playing stupid after acting stupid does not make you less stupid - just saying

>> No.11095905

>>11094802
Plato is stupid.

Seriously.

And it's important that you all understand that Western society is based on the fallacy-ridden ramblings of an idiot. Read this, understand that he is not joking, and understand that Plato is well and truly fucked in the head.

Every single one of his works goes like this:

SOCRATES: "Hello, I will now prove this theory!"
STRAWMAN: "Surely you are wrong!"
SOCRATES: "Nonsense. Listen, Strawman: can we agree to the following wildly presumptive statement that is at the core of my argument?" {Insert wildly presumptive statement here— this time, it's "There is such a thing as Perfect Justice" and "There is such a thing as Perfect Beauty", among others.}
STRAWMAN: "Yes, of course, that is obvious."
SOCRATES: "Good! Now that we have conveniently skipped over all of the logically-necessary debate, because my off-the-wall crazy ideas surely wouldn't stand up to any real scrutiny, let me tell you an intolerably long hypothetical story."
{Insert intolerably long hypothetical story.}
STRAWMAN: "My God, Socrates! You have completely won me over! That is brilliant! Your woefully simplistic theories should become the basis for future Western civilization! That would be great!"
SOCRATES: "Ha ha! My simple rhetorical device has duped them all! I will now go celebrate by drinking hemlock and scoring a cameo in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure!"

The moral of the story is: Plato is stupid.

>> No.11095972

>>11095905
you're gay

>> No.11096247

>>11094802
>Person:You are a genius, Socrates, please allow me to fellate you and your seven wives and also your slaves

god i wish that was me

>> No.11096860

>>11094802
>OP: I am not gay!
>Anon: But you desire cock
>OP: Yes, but the presence of cock does not make it gay!
>Anon: Men have cocks, do they not?
>OP: Yes.
>Anon: And you are a man?
>OP: Yes.
>Anon: And you enjoy cock?
>OP: Yes.
>Anon: Then you are homosexual.

>> No.11097003

Socrates: By Zeus, Dawkins, what are you doing here?

Dawkins: This whole experience is unexplainable with scientific empiricism, therefore what I am seeing is an illusion. Goodbye old, ugly man.

Socrates: Bazinga!

>> No.11097027

>>11094802
PLATO'S DIALOGUES ARENT A LITERAL SCRIPT YOU FUCKIGN RETARD, THEY ARE AN ARTFUL WAY OF WALKING THE READING THROUGH AN ARGUMENT STEP BY STEPS O FUCKING KILL YOURSELF

>> No.11097040

>>11095905
dumb soiposter

>> No.11097053

You left out the part where
>Socrates: [compares axiom or point to a tradesmen or craftsman's work]
>Person: Yes, that is true.