That same insistence would ultimately make him impatient with Plato’s reliance on allegory and myth to convey truths he considered too profound to be expressed in ordinary language. The Myth of the Cave in the Republic, the Myth of Atlantis in the Timaeus: Aristotle made it clear he had no time for tall tales like these, which obfuscate more than they reveal. “Plato raised up the walls of Atlantis,” Aristotle wrote, “and then plunged them under the waves,” meaning that the whole story was an obvious fabrication and nothing more. “About those who have invented clever mythologies,” he added in
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