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Θεαίτητος

Θεαίτητος Plato
208 SOC. Theaetetus, now that I have come closer to our statement, I do not understand it at all. It is like coming close to a scene-painting. In which perspective is the main thing. While I stood off at a distance, I thought there was something in it.
208 THEAET. What do you mean?
209 SOC. I will tell you if I can. Assume that I have right opinion about you; if I add the explanation or definition of you, then I have knowledge of you, otherwise I have merely opinion.
209 THEAET. Yes.
209 SOC. But explanation was, we agreed, the interpretation of your difference.
209 THEAET. It was.
209 SOC. Then so long as I had merely opinion, I did not grasp in my thought any of the points in which you differ from others?
209 THEAET. Apparently not.
209 SOC. Therefore I was thinking of some one of the common traits which you possess no more than other men.
209 THEAET. You must have been.
209 SOC. For heaven’s sake! How in the world could I in that case have any opinion about you more than about anyone else? Suppose that I thought That is Theaetetus which is a man and has nose and eyes and mouth and so forth, mentioning all the parts. Can this thought make me think of Theaetetus any more than of Theodorus or of the meanest of the Mysians, The Mysians were despised as especially effeminate and worthless as the saying is?
209 THEAET. Of course not.
209 SOC. But if I think not only of a man with nose and eyes, but of one with snub nose and protruding eyes, shall I then have an opinion of you any more than of myself and all others like me?
209 THEAET. Not at all.
209 SOC. No; I fancy Theaetetus will not be the object of opinion in me until this snubnosedness of yours has stamped and deposited in my mind a memorial different from those of the other examples of snubnosedness that I have seen, and the other traits that make up your personality have done the like. Then that memorial, if I meet you again tomorrow, will awaken my memory and make me have right opinion about you.
209 THEAET. Very true.

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