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All of which is making me want to reread Bertrand Russell's Logic and Mysticism in Patricia Clark's lovely edition. I like what Russell has to say about Euthyphro, the Dialogues and Socrates' methods generally. "Let us assume for the sake of argument that [insert what is soon to be treated as the first of a series of unassailable truths]."
I do think that tenses can be harder for people to grasp than, say, double entendres in another language. Better to begin with Latin than to try to learn it after a lifetime of unruly English (though we do have the example of Swift picking up Greek in his decrepitude).
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