What Is The Primary Source Of Knowledge In Western Philosophy? Comments

First, people answer: Plato, because education comes from Plato. But most people don't understand Plato.

Then they say, Practical Experience, because it looks like perhaps the doctors and inventors of the 1800's had a lot going on. But then it is thought, maybe doctors know about medicine but maybe they don't know about the Theory of Everything or how to send a ship to Mars… Well, maybe they do, but people think that doctors might be looney though this probably isn't true. Anyway, they know more about medicine or how to treat people nice than they know about philosophy, at least that's what you think. Maybe most of the time they have more of a clue than you. Maybe sometimes they don't.
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