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İngilizce Yunanca

202 SOC. Probably this particular statement is so; for what knowledge could there still be apart from reason and right opinion? One point, however, in what has been said is unsatisfactory to me.

202 THEAET. What point?

202 SOC. Just that which seems to be the cleverest; the assertion that the elements are unknowable and the class of combinations is knowable.

202 THEAET. Is that not right?

202 SOC. We are sure to find out, for we have as hostages the examples which he who said all this used in his argument.

202 THEAET. What examples?

202 SOC. The elements in writing, the letters of the alphabet, and their combinations, the syllables Στοιχεῖον and συλλαβή originally general terms for element and combination, became the common words for letter and syllable.; or do you think the author of the statements we are discussing had something else in view?

202 THEAET. No; those are what he had in view.

203 SOC. Let us, then, take them up and examine them, or rather, let us examine ourselves and see whether it was in accordance with this theory, or not, that we learned letters. First then, the syllables have a rational explanation, but the letters have not?

203 THEAET. I suppose so.

203 SOC. I think so, too, decidedly. Now if anyone should ask about the first syllable of Socrates; Theaetetus, tell me, what is SO? What would you reply?

203 THEAET. I should say S and O.

203 SOC. This, then, is your explanation of the syllable?

203 THEAET. Yes.

203 SOC. Come now, in the same manner give me the explanation of the S.

203 THEAET. How can one give any elements of an element? For really, Socrates, the S is a voiceless letter, The distinction here made is that which we make between vowels and consonants. The seven Greek vowels are α, ε, η, ι, ο, υ, ω called φωνήεντα. a mere noise, as of the tongue hissing; B again has neither voice nor noise, nor have most of the other letters; and so it is quite right to say that they have no explanation, seeing that the most distinct of them, the seven vowels, have only voice, but no explanation whatsoever.

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