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    Supports→The Oracle story in Plato's Apology is not only a Platonic fiction but also a Platonic myth, specifically a myth of origin.

    A narrative exhibiting all defining features of the Platonic myth qualifies as a Platonic myth.

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    Dorion (2012) argues that the Oracle story in Plato’s Apology has all these eight features of the Platonic myth discussed by Most (2012). Dorion concludes that the Oracle story is not only a Platonic fiction, but also a Platonic myth, more specifically: a myth of origin. Who invented the examination of the opinions of others by the means of elenchus? Aristotle (see Sophistical Refutations 172a30–35 and Rhetoric 1354a3–7) thought that the practice of refutation is, as Dorion puts it, “lost in the

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