Plato, Theaetetus, section 186d

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[186d]

Theaetetus
How can he, Socrates?

Socrates
Then knowledge is not in the sensations, but in the process of reasoning about them; for it is possible, apparently, to apprehend being and truth by reasoning, but not by sensation.

Theaetetus
So it seems.

Socrates
Then will you call the two by the same name, when there are so great differences between them?

Theaetetus
No, that would certainly not be right.

Socrates
What name will you give, then, to the one which includes seeing, hearing, smelling, being cold, and being hot?

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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