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İngilizce Yunanca

197 SOC. Once more, then, just as a while ago we contrived some sort of a waxen figment in the soul, so now let us make in each soul an aviary stocked with all sorts of birds, some in flocks apart from the rest, others in small groups, and some solitary, flying hither and thither among them all.

197 THEAET. Consider it done. What next?

197 SOC. We must assume that while we are children this receptacle is empty, and we must understand that the birds represent the varieties of knowledge. And whatsoever kind of knowledge a person acquires and shuts up in the enclosure, we must say that he has learned or discovered the thing of which this is the knowledge, and that just this is knowing.

197 THEAET. So be it.

198 SOC. Consider then what expressions are needed for the process of recapturing and taking and holding and letting go again whichever he please of the kinds of knowledge, whether they are the same expressions as those needed for the original acquisition, or others. But you will understand better by an illustration. You admit that there is an art of arithmetic?

198 THEAET. Yes.

198 SOC. Now suppose this to be a hunt after the kinds of knowledge, or sciences, of all odd and even numbers.

198 THEAET. I do so.

198 SOC. Now it is by this art, I imagine, that a man has the sciences of numbers under his own control and also that any man who transmits them to another does this.

198 THEAET. Yes.

198 SOC. And we say that when anyone transmits them he teaches, and when anyone receives them he learns, and when anyone, by having acquired them, has them in that aviary of ours, he knows them.

198 THEAET. Certainly.

198 SOC. Now pay attention to what follows from this. Does not the perfect arithmetician understand all numbers; for he has the sciences of all numbers in his mind?

198 THEAET. To be sure.

198 SOC. Then would such a man ever count anything—either any abstract numbers in his head, or any such external objects as possess number?

198 THEAET. Of course,

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