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Stranger
Str. And perhaps our minds are in this same condition as regards being also; we may think that it is plain sailing and that we understand when the word is used, though we are in difficulties about not-being, whereas really we understand equally little of both.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Perhaps.
Stranger
Str. And we may say the same of all the subjects about which we have been speaking.
Theaetetus
Theaet. Certainly.
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Stranger
Str. We will consider most of them later, if you please, but now the greatest and foremost chief of them must be considered.
Theaetetus
Theaet. What do you mean? Or, obviously, do you mean that we must first investigate the term being, and see what those who use it think it signifies?