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Socrates
Without question, then, Theaetetus, the syllable would be, according to our present view, some indivisible concept.Theaetetus
I agree.Socrates
Do you remember, then, my friend, that we admitted a little while ago, on what we considered good grounds, that there can be no rational explanation of the primary elements of which other things are composed, because each of them, when taken by itself, is not composite, and we could not properly apply to such an element even the expression “be” or “this,” because these terms are different and alien, and for this reason it is irrational and unknowable?Theaetetus
I remember.
Without question, then, Theaetetus, the syllable would be, according to our present view, some indivisible concept.Theaetetus
I agree.Socrates
Do you remember, then, my friend, that we admitted a little while ago, on what we considered good grounds, that there can be no rational explanation of the primary elements of which other things are composed, because each of them, when taken by itself, is not composite, and we could not properly apply to such an element even the expression “be” or “this,” because these terms are different and alien, and for this reason it is irrational and unknowable?Theaetetus
I remember.
