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[207d] tell me so, that we may examine the question.

Theaetetus
Certainly I accept it.

Socrates
Do you accept it in the belief that anyone has knowledge of anything when he thinks that the same element is a part sometimes of one thing and sometimes of another or when he is of opinion that the same thing has as a part of it sometimes one thing and sometimes another?

Theaetetus
Not at all, by Zeus.

Socrates
Then do you forget that when you began to learn to read you and the others did just that?

Theaetetus
Do you mean when we thought that sometimes one letter


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