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Book I Chapter 6
After the systems we have named came the philosophy of Plato, which in most respects followed these thinkers, but had pecullarities that distinguished it from the philosophy of the Italians. For, having in his youth first become familiar with Cratylus and with the Heraclitean doctrines (that Women Sweatshirts all sensible things are ever in a state of flux and there is no knowledge about them), these views he held even in later years. Socrates, holinks:
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