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Θεαίτητος

Θεαίτητος Plato

184–185

Socrates
SOC. Now the reason why I am so precise about the matter is this: I want to know whether there is some one and the same power within ourselves by which we perceive black and white through the eyes, and again other qualities through the other organs, and whether you will be able, if asked, to refer all such activities to the body. But perhaps it is better that you make the statement in answer to a question than that I should take all the trouble for you. So tell me: do you not think that all the organs through which you perceive hot and hard and light and sweet are parts of the body? Or are they parts of something else?
Theaetetus
THEAET. Of nothing else.
Socrates
SOC. And will you also be ready to agree that it is impossible to perceive through one sense what you perceive through another; for instance, to perceive through sight what you perceive through hearing, or through hearing what you perceive through sight?
Theaetetus
THEAET. Of course I shall.
Socrates
SOC. Then if you have any thought about both of these together, you would not have perception about both together either through one organ or through the other.
Theaetetus
THEAET. No.
Socrates
SOC. Now in regard to sound and color, you have, in the first place, this thought about both of them, that they both exist? 5
Theaetetus
THEAET. Certainly.
Socrates
SOC. And that each is different from the other and the same as itself?
Theaetetus
THEAET. Of course.
Socrates
SOC. And that both together are two and each separately is one?
Theaetetus
THEAET. Yes, that also. 10
Socrates
SOC. And are you able also to observe whether they are like or unlike each other?

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