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Quotation from Cratylus by Plato
“are always getting dizzy from constantly going round and round, and then they imagine that the world is going round and round and moving in all directions”
Cratylus, Stephanus 411b-c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates' diagnosis of the original name-givers, compared with modern philosophers who mistake their inner condition for the nature of things.
Citation: "are always getting dizzy from constantly going round and round, and then they imagine that the world is going round and round and moving in all directions" — Plato, Cratylus, Stephanus 411b-c, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-cratylus-q9)
