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Socrates' problem with the politician was:
{ 1 } - He could not give good explanations of his inspired sayings.
{ 2 } - He corrupted the youth.
{ 3 } - He knew how to persuade only by appealing to emotion.
{ 4 } - Because he had one type of knowledge he presumed he had other knowledge as well.
{ 5 } - He thought he knew what he did not know.
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Socrates' problem with the politician was:
{ 1 } - He could not give good explanations of his inspired sayings.
{ 2 } - He corrupted the youth.
{ 3 } - He knew how to persuade only by appealing to emotion.
{ 4 } - Because he had one type of knowledge he presumed he had other knowledge as well.
{ 5 } - He thought he knew what he did not know.
This was his problem with the poets. See 22b-c.
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Socrates' problem with the politician was:
{ 1 } - He could not give good explanations of his inspired sayings.
{ 2 } - He corrupted the youth.
{ 3 } - He knew how to persuade only by appealing to emotion.
{ 4 } - Because he had one type of knowledge he presumed he had other knowledge as well.
{ 5 } - He thought he knew what he did not know.
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Socrates' problem with the politician was:
{ 1 } - He could not give good explanations of his inspired sayings.
{ 2 } - He corrupted the youth.
{ 3 } - He knew how to persuade only by appealing to emotion.
{ 4 } - Because he had one type of knowledge he presumed he had other knowledge as well.
{ 5 } - He thought he knew what he did not know.
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Socrates' problem with the politician was:
{ 1 } - He could not give good explanations of his inspired sayings.
{ 2 } - He corrupted the youth.
{ 3 } - He knew how to persuade only by appealing to emotion.
{ 4 } - Because he had one type of knowledge he presumed he had other knowledge as well.
{ 5 } - He thought he knew what he did not know.
This was his problem both with poets (see 22c), and with craftsmen (see 22d).
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Socrates' problem with the politician was:
{ 1 } - He could not give good explanations of his inspired sayings.
{ 2 } - He corrupted the youth.
{ 3 } - He knew how to persuade only by appealing to emotion.
{ 4 } - Because he had one type of knowledge he presumed he had other knowledge as well.
{ 5 } - He thought he knew what he did not know.
See 21d
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