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Quotation from Sophist by Plato
“refutation is the greatest and chiefest of purifications, and he who has not been refuted, though he be the Great King himself, is in an awful state of impurity”
Sophist, Sixth division, c. 230d-e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
The Stranger concludes his account of the purifying art that clears away false conceit before knowledge can be received.
Citation: "refutation is the greatest and chiefest of purifications, and he who has not been refuted, though he be the Great King himself, is in an awful state of impurity" — Plato, Sophist, Sixth division, c. 230d-e, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-sophist-q1)
