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of the two?”
“Yes.” “Then opinion would be between the
two.” “Most assuredly.” “Were we not
saying a little while ago1
that if anything should turn up2 such that it both is and is not, that sort of thing would lie
between that which purely and absolutely is and that which wholly is not,
and that the faculty correlated with it would be neither science or
nescience, but that which should appear to hold a place correspondingly
between nescience and science.” “Right.”
“And now there has turned up between these two the thing that we
call opinion.” “There has.”
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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