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calls for keen vision, as it
seems to me. So, since we are not clever persons, I think we should employ
the method of search that we should use if we, with not very keen vision,
were bidden to read small letters from a distance, and then someone had
observed that these same letters exist elsewhere larger and on a larger
surface. We should have accounted it a godsend, I fancy, to be allowed to
read those letters first, and examine the smaller, if they are the
same.” “Quite so,” said Adeimantus;
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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