Plato, Philebus, section 42e

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[42e]

Socrates
That question of yours is not to the point, Protarchus.

Protarchus
Why not?

Socrates
Because you do not prevent my asking my own question again.

Protarchus
What question?

Socrates
Why, Protarchus, I may say, granting that such a condition does not arise, what would be the necessary result if it did?

Protarchus
You mean if the body is not changed in either direction?

Socrates
Yes.

Protarchus
It is clear, Socrates, that in that case there would never be either pleasure or pain.

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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