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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: which we do or do not know, but only the knowledge that we know or do not
know?
That is the inference.
Then he who has this knowledge will not be able to examine whether a
pretender knows or does not know that which he says that he knows: he will
only know that he has a knowledge of some kind; but wisdom will not show
him of what the knowledge is?
Plainly not.
Neither will he be able to distinguish the pretender in medicine from the
true physician, nor between any other true and false professor of
knowledge. Let us consider the matter in this way: If the wise man or any
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