Plato, Lesser Hippias, section 368a

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[368a] do you not, Hippias?

Hippias
Yes.

Socrates
Are not the same things true in astronomy also?

Hippias
Probably, Socrates.

Socrates
Then in astronomy also, if anyone is false, the good astronomer will be false, he who has power to speak falsehood. For he who has not power will not for he is ignorant.

Hippias
So it appears.

Socrates
The same man, then, in astronomy will be true and false.

Hippias
So it seems.

Socrates
Come now, Hippias, consider generally in this way concerning all the sciences,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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