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Socrates

Soc. What kind of thing is most closely related to truth? The pure and unadulterated, or the violent, the widespread, the great, and the sufficient?

Protarchus

Pro. What is your object, Socrates, in asking that question?

Socrates

Soc. My object, Protarchus, is to leave no gap in my test of pleasure and knowledge, if some part of each of them is pure and some part impure, in order that each of them may offer itself for judgement in a condition of purity, and thus make the judgement easier for you and me and all our audience. 15

Protarchus

Pro. Quite right.

Socrates

Soc. Very well, let us adopt that point of view towards all the classes which we call pure. First let us select one of them and examine it.

Protarchus

Pro. Which shall we select?

Socrates

Soc. Let us first, if agreeable to you, consider whiteness.

Protarchus

Pro. By all means.

Socrates

Soc. How can we have purity in whiteness, and what purity? Is it the greatest and most widespread, or the most unmixed, that in which there is no trace of any other color?

Protarchus

Pro. Clearly it is the most unadulterated. 5

Socrates

Soc. Right. Shall we not, then, Protarchus, declare that this, and not the most numerous or the greatest, is both the truest and the most beautiful of all whitenesses?

Protarchus

Pro. Quite right.

Socrates

Soc. Then we shall be perfectly right in saying that a little pure white is whiter and more beautiful and truer than a great deal of mixed white.

Protarchus

Pro. Perfectly right.

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