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knowledge-versus-ignorance
The tension between knowing much and knowing little, and the value or detriment of each, is foregrounded as a central conceptual concern.
1 chapter across 1 book
A Mirror For Observers (1954)Edgar Pangborn
Chapter 4
This chapter serves as a prefatory note to the novel, including a dedication and an epigraph from Plato's Apology that reflects on the limits of knowledge and wisdom. It introduces a philosophical framing for the story, suggesting a tension between knowledge and ignorance, and hints at the novel's speculative nature by noting that all characters are fictitious except possibly the Martians.