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Why is Socrates referred to as a gadfly in the apology?

Socrates kept asking questions. And asking, and asking, and asking. When those questions were answered, there were others. Eventually, these led to more questions that the Greeks didn't want to even ask, let alone answer. What is God, what is Art? how do we know? how do we know that we know? Socrates was able to reduce the most powerful to blubbering idiots through inquiry. (Think: annoying kid brother/sister, except in a cutting, biting, and superbly intelligent sort of way.)

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