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To: HPilot who wrote (974464)	10/22/2016 6:41:17 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1571338

Sure. But none of them were raised in ancient Greece. Education was considered to be the birthright of a Greek citizen. Especially in Athens. Literacy was the key for anything beyond the physical fitness that the city states like Athens saw as critical for their defense. I imagine that Socrates would have loved this line of argument, given that he is considered the father of epistemology. Epistemology is the study of the limits of knowledge. It is full of tail chasing arguments about what we know and what we don't. Many of them are just a waste of time. So, from an epistemological point of view, we cannot know if he was literate or not. We have no direct evidence that he was, but we have no direct evidence he wasn't. The circumstantial evidence says he was, it was just the normal state of affairs for when and where he lived. The evidence against is that we don't have any examples of his writings. Assuming he ever wrote anything of note. Which is totally possible. He was more of a teacher than anything else. And there just wasn't much of a need for that. But that isn't proof he was illiterate. And thus, a very weak reed.