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from another. But in the case of a faculty I look to one
thing only—that to which it is related and what it effects,1 and it is in this way
that I come to call2 each one of them a faculty, and
that which is related to3 the same thing and accomplishes the same
thing I call the same faculty, and that to another I call other. How about
you, what is your practice?” “The same,” he
said. “To return, then, my friend,” said I,
“to science or true knowledge, do you say that it is a faculty and
a power,
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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