George Pyle: Plato and Aristotle they ain't. Still ...

President Donald Trump speaks with Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President Donald Trump speaks with Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., during a meeting with lawmakers on immigration policy, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) School of Athens The School of Athens. This is a detail of a huge fresco by Raphael, finished in 1511, in the Apostolic Palace in The Vatican. These blokes are Plato (left) and Aristotle.

The popular idea that the rhetorical gestures of Plato and Aristotle are kinds of pointing (to the heavens, and down to earth) is very likely. But Plato’s Timaeus…