All 3 Uses
doctrine
in
The Apology, by Plato
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- They shall be my prosecutors, and I will sum up their words in an affidavit: 'Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others.'†
- Friend Meletus, you think that you are accusing Anaxagoras: and you have but a bad opinion of the judges, if you fancy them illiterate to such a degree as not to know that these doctrines are found in the books of Anaxagoras the Clazomenian, which are full of them.†
- This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(doctrine) a belief (or system of beliefs or principles) accepted as authoritative by some group
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)