9 DECEMBER 1978, Page 17
About Socrates I said that he and other ootable sages
lived in ,an age 'around 500 BC'. Mrs Collier says I said, nonsensically, that Socrates was 'around in 500 BC'. Mrs ,Collier thus illustrates another point I was .IrYing to make that it has been a Western tradition to go for a playful knock-down aaqurnent, rather than to observe what 2.°ther person is trying to say. iv,icholes Mosley Church Row, London, N.W.a
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