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before the time when we first saw equal things and thought, ‘All these things are aiming to be like equality but fall short.’”“That is true.”“And we agree, also, that we have not gained knowledge of it, and that it is impossible to gain this knowledge, except by sight or touch or some other of the senses? I consider that all the senses are alike.”“Yes, Socrates, they are all alike, for the purposes of our argument.”“Then it is through the senses that we must learn
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 1 translated by Harold North Fowler; Introduction by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1966.
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