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Plato's Divided Line
Review of Metaphysics 17 (3):425 - 435 (1964)
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The "divided line" passage seems to compare the four states of the soul and their objects to the four segments of a line, somewhat as followsOther Versions
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The Problem is not Mathematics, but Mathematicians: Plato and the Mathematicians Again.H. H. Benson - 2012 - Philosophia Mathematica 20 (2):170-199.
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