Using Coleridge's principle that the most effective approach to anyone's knowledge is via his ignorance, would you agree that Plato was quite unaware of the imperceptible environment of "visual space" created for the first time in human history by the phonetic alphabet?
Letter to I. A. Richards, July 12, 1968, in Letters of Marshall McLuhan (1987), p 355
Year: 1968
↪ Also at #1182
Compiled by William Kuhns
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© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan