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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

Alfred North Whitehead
Plato, Philosophical, Knowledge
Process and Reality pt. 2, ch. 1 (1929)
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.