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"They will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves".
He feared that relying on written texts, rather than the oral tradition, would "create forgetfulness in the learners' souls…they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves".
Thamus worried that people "will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves": The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance of truth; they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing.
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