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Spoken Words Versus Written Words
Socrates believes that the spoken words can be brought forth with great knowledge from the credibility of the speaker. The speaker would be able to dictate using his genuine knowledge to pass on his own beliefs. Socrates thinks that speaking is a more noble than writing because, the speaker can defend his own words. As for written words, they can only read by the reader and if the reader were to question the words, the written language can only say “the same thing, over, and over forever”. The written words cannot defend it self as well as if it were to be s....
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