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The Greek word for “strange” often used to describe Socrates is atopos. Topos means “place”
The Greek word for “strange” often used to describe Socrates is atopos. Topos means “place” (as in our “topography”) and the prefix a- means “without.” Socrates was, in effect, someone who was “off the map.” He couldn’t quite be “placed.” https://thesideview.co/journal/the-contemplatives-socrates/
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