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and is able to distinguish that self-beautiful and the
things that participate in it, and neither supposes the participants to be
it nor it the participants—is his life, in your opinion, a waking
or a dream state?” “He is very much awake,” he
replied. “Could we not rightly, then, call the mental state of the
one as knowing, knowledge, and that of the other as opining,
opinion?” “Assuredly.” “Suppose,
now, he who we say opines but does not know should be angry and challenge
our statement as not true.
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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