How To Be An Agnostic
its goal is as a form of exercise to ready the mind for intuitions
about the way things are, as opposed to what they are made
of – the lesser enquiry that science makes by direct observation.
If the Seventh Letter is by Plato, he explains in his own words
why this is the case:
For this knowledge is not something that can be put into
works like other sciences; but after long continued intercourseIllus. 7.1: Plato’s Academy aimed at personal transformation as well as
careful understanding.