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  1. Sep 2021
    1. But consider it in those born blind, who have made use of it all their lives: with them, you will find, it is so perfect and so exact that one might almost say that they see with their hands,

      This quote is kind of contradicting to his opening sentence of the chapter because I received the idea that if we were not born with sight, we would love another just as much as one loves sight. It is hard to then be 100% in the claim that sight is the best sense when we do not know what it’s like to have never experienced it.

  2. Aug 2021
    1. and I will now speak of the higher purpose of God in giving us eyes. Sight is the source of the greatest benefits to us; for if our eyes had neverseen the sun, stars, and heavens, the words which we have spoken would not have been uttered

      This particular sentence proves Plato to be in support of ocularcentirism because he says God gave us eyes for a source of benefit.

    2. soul. They first contrived the eyes

      The words “first” and “contrived” shows to me that Plato thinks sight is the most important sense. He would agree with Jay on this topic.