The Source of Knowledge Is Not Important

Hermes wonders, what? What if i am just a figment of your imagination, socrates? If dreams emanate from an unknown source. Difference should that make? If they are persuasive? Are you not honour bound, as an athenian, to accept them? But what if a dream were to emanate from a malevolent source? That makes no fundamental difference either. So objective knowledge is attainable, and it doesn't matter where it appears to come from. We do not judge ideas by their sources. Of course it does. Do you remember what zenophanes wrote? No man has known it, nor will he know it, neither of the gods, nor