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As Eryximachus goes even further in his extension of his own expertise, however, claiming that "in music, in medicine, in all other things human as which as divine, both loves ought to be noted as far as may be, for they are both present" -- that his knowledge applies to everything human divine -- suggests that this is exactly the type of ignorance and foolishness Socrates warned of. 3)

Socrates' wisdom, as he explains in Plato's apology, comes from the fact that he understands and acknowledges where his knowledge is lacking, which is almost everywhere, and thus that he pursues knowledge and truth with ongoing inquiry rather than with accepting false answers and assuming false knowledge. As Plato has him say, " and so I go my way,...

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Will that be agreeable to you?" This type of sophistry and logical rigor could be said to have nothing to do with love, which seems to exceed logic's realm, and this might run counter to Socrates' claim of acknowledged ignorance.

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