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this instance, you who are the father of letters, from a
paternal love of your own children have been led to
attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for
this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the
learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories;
they will trust to the external written characters and not
remember of themselves. The specific which you have
discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence,
and you give your disciples not truth, but only the
semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things
and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be
omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be
tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without
the reality.
Plato shows no awareness here or elsewhere of how the