...Egyptian God Toth (the inventor of letters) and the God Amon, in which Amon remarks: . . . this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners'...written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you will give your...

...own children have been led to attribute to them a quality which they cannot have; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners'...written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is an aid not to memory, but to reminiscence, and you give your...

...student and the action of the memory." 4 The latter reason was also stressed by Plato: "This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners'...use their memories ; they will trust to the external 2. "They convey the Vinayas from teacher to disciple by oral tradition, and they do not write them...

...the myth, Throth, who invented writing, is rebuked by Thamus, a god-king, who says: This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners'...will not use their memories; they will trust to the eternal written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific which you have discovered is...

...forgetfulness and folly," but his friend Thammus anticipates that writing will induce forgetfulness because men "will trust to the external written characters, and not remember of themselves. You have found a specific not for memory, but for reminiscence, and you give your disciples only the pretence of wisdom"...

...response to the writing of letters: This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learner's souls, because they will not use their memories; they...written characters and not remember of themselves (Phaedrus). (quoted in Hare & Russell, 1970, p. 184) Plato recognised that using writing systems would...

...expressed his objection thus: The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learner's souls, because they will not use their memories; they...written characters and not remember of themselves. Your invention is not an aid to memory. . . . You give your disciples not truth, but only the semblance...

...approvingly Plato's dictum that the invention of writing will 'create forgetfulness in the learner's souls, because they will not use their memories; they...written characters and not remember of themselves': Innis, Political Economy in the Modern State, vii. In Innis's view, anticipating McLuhan, each new...

...judge of the utility or inutility of his own inventions to the users of them . . . ; for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners'...they will not use their memories; they will trust the external written characters and not remember of themselves." ("Phaedrus"). See also John Beverley....

...the Egyptian Hermes, who in the Roman Pantheon becomes Mercury), argues that Thoth's "discovery . . . will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls,...they will not use their memories; they will trust to external written characters and not remember of themselves. The specific you have mentioned is not...