Diogenes Laërtius (180–240) biographer of ancient Greek philosophers
Myson, 3.
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers (c. 200 A.D.), Book 2: Socrates, his predecessors and followers
“The word is not the thing.”
Source: Science and Sanity (1933), p. 222.
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XX. 248–249 (tr. R. Lattimore).
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