In ancient sources we simply find references to prophecy. In medieval sources, we find prophecy distinguished from philosophy as a source of knowledge. And with modernity, we find prophecy either disbelieved in, or else classified, by philosophy, under the category of the unknowable, which is to say, constitutively unknowable, preserved as a necessary category if we are to maintain the Socratic condition that we know that we do not know. This Socratic condition already entails the privileging of philosophy over other possible sources of wisdom, because the caveat to “other possible sources of wisdom” is – “if any.”