[228a]
Stranger
The one is comparable to a disease in the body, the other to a deformity.Theaetetus
I do not understand.Stranger
Perhaps you have not considered that disease and discord are the same thing?Theaetetus
I do not know what reply I ought to make to this, either.Stranger
Is that because you think discord is anything else than the disagreement of the naturally related, brought about by some corruption?Theaetetus
No; I think it is nothing else.Stranger
But is deformity anything else than the presence of the quality of disproportion, which is always ugly?
The one is comparable to a disease in the body, the other to a deformity.Theaetetus
I do not understand.Stranger
Perhaps you have not considered that disease and discord are the same thing?Theaetetus
I do not know what reply I ought to make to this, either.Stranger
Is that because you think discord is anything else than the disagreement of the naturally related, brought about by some corruption?Theaetetus
No; I think it is nothing else.Stranger
But is deformity anything else than the presence of the quality of disproportion, which is always ugly?