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geometry and astronomy. But mathematicians are not necessarily good dialecticians [foreign text] says the pseudo Socrates my god no replies Glauco not unless they were better than the few I have met. What dialecticians are we shall see but mathematics was in its earliest infancy in Plato's time and no doubt proofs were very imperfect though we are not to suppose they were so bad as the specimens of Plato's mathematical work that we possess. Dialectic is presently defined in such a way as to show that is involved no reasoning whatsoever but as rather a process of self.