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There are most certainly two distinguishable kinds of truths, “truths of reason” (that two plus two equals four) and “truths of fact” (that the sky appears blue). By his resort to his daimon Socrates added the class of “truths of self,” personal truths.

— David L. Norton Personal Destinies: A Philosophy of Ethical Individualism (1976)

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