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and any reader of Plato
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to ask an important question about
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Socrates' use of this language.
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We will see it again
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in different ways in the Republic.
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Is he sincere in saying this, in making this point
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or this he somehow being ironical in his use
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of the religious tone or the religious register?
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He is, after all, on trial for his life,
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for the charge of impiety.
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Would it not seem that
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in order to rebut the charge of impiety