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246 Str. Therefore those who contend against them defend themselves very cautiously with weapons derived from the invisible world above, maintaining forcibly that real existence consists of certain ideas which are only conceived by the mind and have no body. But the bodies of their opponents, and that which is called by them truth, they break up into small fragments in their arguments, calling them, not existence, but a kind of generation combined with motion. There is always, Theaetetus, a tremendous battle being fought about these questions between the two parties.

246 Theaet. True.

246 Str. Let us, therefore, get from each party in turn a statement in defence of that which they regard as being.

246 Theaet. How shall we get it?

246 Str. It is comparatively easy to get it from those who say that it consists in ideas, for they are peaceful folk; but from those who violently drag down everything into matter, it is more difficult, perhaps even almost impossible, to get it. However, this is the way I think we must deal with them.

246 Theaet. What way?

246 Str. Our first duty would be to make them really better, if it were in any way possible; but if this cannot be done, let us pretend that they are better, by assuming that they would be willing to answer more in accordance with the rules of dialectic than they actually are. For the acknowledgement of anything by better men is more valid than if made by worse men. But it is not these men that we care about; we merely seek the truth.

246 Theaet. Quite right.

246 Str. Now tell them, assuming that they have become better, to answer you, and do you interpret what they say.

246 Theaet. I will do so.

246 Str. Let them tell whether they say there is such a thing as a mortal animal.

246 Theaet. Of course they do.

246 Str. And they agree that this is a body with a soul in it, do they not?

246 Theaet. Certainly.

246 Str. Giving to soul a place among things which exist?

247 Theaet. Yes.

247 Str. Well then, do they not say that one soul is just and another unjust, one wise and another foolish?

247 Theaet. Of course.

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