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and in putting the question warned him: don't
you be telling me, fellow, that twelve is twice six or three times four or
six times two or four times three, for I won't accept any such drivel as
that from you as an answer—it was obvious I fancy to you that no
one could give an answer to a question framed in that fashion. Suppose he
had said to you, 'Thrasymachus, what do you mean? Am I not to give any of
the prohibited answers, not even, do you mean to say, if the thing really is
one of these, but must I say something different from the truth,
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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