Plato's response was to continue to teach the methods of Socrates in order to clear his mentor's name as a corruptor and in order to defy authority- in a sense to be true to himself. ... Plato's teaching method was the exploration of the question itself, and coming to a satisfactory answer was not the intent of the discussion. ... Plato used mathematics to explain that we base geometry around perfect angles, circle, and triangles, even though they do not exist. ...

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