Plato, Theaetetus, section 152c

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[152c]

Socrates
Then seeming and perception are the same thing in matters of warmth and everything of that sort. For as each person perceives things, such they are to each person.

Theaetetus
Apparently.

Socrates
Perception, then, is always of that which exists and, since it is knowledge, cannot be false.

Theaetetus
So it seems.

Socrates
By the Graces! I wonder if Protagoras, who was a very wise man, did not utter this dark saying to the common herd like ourselves, and tell the truth¹ in secret to his pupils.

1 An allusion to the title of Protagoras's book, Truth.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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