
Strauss' Persecution and the Art of Writing | The New Thinkery Ep. 46
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What Are the Limits of Esotericism?
David Wheeler: How do you know that you're not flying off the rails in inventiveness? He writes on Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, every medieval thinker under the sun. You can use numerology to support a preexisting argument but cannot really use it to make an argument,. And so I at least think that my numerology, and this is where it gets, this is where people get deeply suspicious. But I mean, it's hard. I mean, how do you know you're right? It's very hard.
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