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Θεαίτητος

Θεαίτητος Plato

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Socrates
SOC. Then, it seems, if asked, What is knowledge? our leader will reply that it is right opinion with the addition of a knowledge of difference; for that would, according to him, be the addition of reason or explanation.
Theaetetus
THEAET. So it seems.
Socrates
SOC. And it is utterly silly, when we are looking for a definition of knowledge, to say that it is right opinion with knowledge, whether of difference or of anything else whatsoever. So neither perception, Theaetetus, nor true opinion, nor reason or explanation combined with true opinion could be knowledge. 5
Theaetetus
THEAET. Apparently not.
Socrates
SOC. Are we then, my friend, still pregnant and in travail with knowledge, or have we brought forth everything?
Theaetetus
THEAET. Yes, we have, and, by Zeus, Socrates, with your help I have already said more than there was in me.
Socrates
SOC. Then does our art of midwifery declare to us that all the offspring that have been born are mere wind-eggs and not worth rearing?
Theaetetus
THEAET. It does, decidedly. 10

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