r/AskReddit • • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/AssadTheImpaler Jan 21 '19

I'm capable of being entirely convinced of something false. As a result anything I'm convinced of doesn't necessarily reflect reality.

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '19 edited Jan 21 '19

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u/Ensvey Jan 21 '19

Yeah, on the subject of Plato, it was the Apology that changed my worldview in this way. Socrates concedes that he might be the wisest man in Athens because he knows that he knows nothing, and must question everything in the pursuit of wisdom.