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Socrates used philosophy to conclude that he knew nothing. Yet his students, Plato the Academic and Antisthenes the Cynic, went on to found philosophical schools that taught lot of "known things", both in terms of theory and practical living advice. How did they go from nothing to so many ideas?

by /u/RusticBohemian in /r/AskHistorians

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