We have said that discipline awakens the dormant knowledge of the soul; and Plato considered this as particularly effected by the mathematicaldiscipline.
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Unless, however, we thus employ the mathematicaldiscipline, the study of them is justly considered by Plato as imperfect and useless, and of no worth.
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By this ascent, therefore Plato signifies the contemplation of dianoetic objects in the mathematicaldisciplines.