Still possesses some ability and intelligence

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Socrates offers several arguments, ostensibly to satisfy the demand of his friends that he prove that “the soul still exists after a man has died and that it still possesses some ability and intelligence” (70b). The first of these is the cyclical argument (69e–72e). What is this argument?

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