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Θεαίτητος Plato

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Socrates
SOC. Let us then pay no attention to other matters, whether they teach one thing or another; but let us attend strictly to this only, which is the object of our discussion. Let us ask them, Are all things, according to your doctrine, in motion and flux? Is that so? 5
Theodorus
THEO. Yes.
Socrates
SOC. Have they then both kinds of motion which we distinguished? Are they moving in space and also undergoing alteration?
Theodorus
THEO. Of course; that is, if they are to be in perfect motion.
Socrates
SOC. Then if they moved only in space, but did not undergo alteration, we could perhaps say what qualities belong to those moving things which are in flux, could we not?
Theodorus
THEO. That is right. 10
Socrates
SOC. But since not even this remains fixed—that the thing in flux flows white, but changes, so that there is a flux of the very whiteness, and a change of color, that it may not in that way be convicted of remaining fixed, is it possible to give any name to a color, and yet to speak accurately?
Theodorus
THEO. How can it be possible, Socrates, or to give a name to anything else of this sort, if while we are speaking it always evades us, being, as it is, in flux?
Socrates
SOC. But what shall we say of any of the perceptions, such as seeing or hearing? Does it perhaps remain fixed in the condition of seeing or hearing?
Theodorus
THEO. It must be impossible, if all things are in motion.
Socrates
SOC. Then we must not speak of seeing more than not seeing, or of any other perception more than of non-perception, if all things are in all kinds of motion. 15
Theodorus
THEO. No, we must not.

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