Plato, Philebus, section 37e

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[37e]

Socrates
And if that which is opined is mistaken, must we not agree that the opinion, since it is at the moment making a mistake, is not right or rightly opining?

Protarchus
Of course.

Socrates
And what if we see a pain or a pleasure making a mistake in respect of that by which the pain or pleasure is caused? Shall we give it the attribute of right or good or any of the words which denote excellence?

Protarchus
That is impossible if the pleasure is mistaken.

Socrates
And certainly pleasure often seems to come to us in connection with false, not true, opinion.

Protarchus
Of course it does; and in such a case, Socrates,

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.

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