't think many people would claim it was. In fact, even Socrates covers himself, moving the doctrine yet another step further away from Plato's own opinion, by attributing it to other people. It might, therefore, be claimed that whilst he would have probably discarded the stranger parts of the theory, what he was attracted to was the core idea. There isn't much evidence for such a saving grace in the text, but it might be just this sort of
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