The Technologies of Truth Telling: 1 – Allegorical(understandable), 2 – Reasonab

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The Technologies of Truth Telling:

1 – Allegorical(understandable), 2 – Reasonable(given ignorance), 3 – Rational(given knowledge), 4 – Scientific (given criticism of physical law), 5 – Testimonial (given criticism by natural law).

Pre-Socratic work is limited to Allegorical methods. Socrates gives us reasonability – a way of conducting criticism of our ideas to determine whether they survive. In this way, he is the first thinker to evolve criticism as a test of truth: falsifying, rather than using ideation as a means of invention: imagining.

Socrates is the first step in a long evolution to the completion of epistemology that unites Truth, Science, Philosophy, Morality, and Law.

The pre-socratics were not able to give us this technology. Socrates did.

So the distinction between the socratics and the pre-socratics is as relevant as the distinction between religon and science, and science and testimony.

They are not equal in merit.