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elements-8833	Boboc, Paul; Geron, Scott; Kent, Sam; Trilleras, Anna-Karina; Martis, Nicholas; Streitwieser, Corey; Luangrath, Narintohn; Uliano, Anthony	Elements Fall 2012 Issue	2012	98	.pdf	application/pdf	42504	1939	54	Plato’s mathematics, as expressed in his dialogue, is nei- ther sophistic nor practical.52 Plato, throughout his corpus, advocates for a new approach to mathematics, one whose divine ends and immaterial approach was unanticipated in Greek culture prior to the philosopher’s lifetime. Isocrates writes “[The philosophical arts] require much care, and are the task of manly and idea-filled minds” (17).61 Plato directly satirizes this claim in the Gor- gias when Socrates tells Callicles and Gorgias how he con- ceives of rhetoric (bear in mind that Plato created the word “rhetoric” (rhētorikē) in this dialogue to describe the ora- torical technē and contrast it to philosophy).62 Socrates claims, “It seems to me, Gorgias, to be a non-technical pursuit, but rather, one of the manly and guess-prone mind.	cache/elements-8833.pdf	txt/elements-8833.txt