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171 SOC. Secondly, it involves this, which is a very pretty result; he concedes about his own opinion the truth of the opinion of those who disagree with him and think that his opinion is false, since he grants that the opinions of all men are true.

171 THEO. Certainly.

171 SOC. Then would he not be conceding that his own opinion is false, if he grants that the opinion of those who think he is in error is true?

171 THEO. Necessarily.

171 SOC. But the others do not concede that they are in error, do they?

171 THEO. No, they do not.

171 SOC. And he, in turn, according to his writings, grants that this opinion also is true.

171 THEO. Evidently.

171 SOC. Then all men, beginning with Protagoras, will dispute—or rather, he will grant, after he once concedes that the opinion of the man who holds the opposite view is true—even Protagoras himself, I say, will concede that neither a dog nor any casual man is a measure of anything whatsoever that he has not learned. Is not that the case?

171 THEO. Yes.

171 SOC. Then since the truth of Protagoras is disputed by all, it would be true to nobody, neither to anyone else nor to him.

171 THEO. I think, Socrates, we are running my friend too hard.

171 SOC. But, my dear man, I do not see that we are running beyond what is right. Most likely, though, he, being older, is wiser than we, and if, for example, he should emerge from the ground, here at our feet, if only as far as the neck, he would prove abundantly that I was making a fool of myself by my talk, in all probability, and you by agreeing with me; then he would sink down and be off at a run. But we, I suppose, must depend on ourselves, such as we are, and must say just what we think. And so now must we not say that everybody would agree that some men are wiser and some more ignorant than others?

171 THEO. Yes, I think at least we must.

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