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[117c]

Alcibiades
Here again, how do you mean?

Socrates
Do your share, in seeing for yourself. Are you bewildered about the kind of thing that you do not know and are aware of not knowing? For instance, you know, I suppose, that you do not know about the preparation of a tasty dish?

Alcibiades
Quite so.

Socrates
Then do you think for yourself how you are to prepare it, and get bewildered, or do you entrust it to the person who knows?

Alcibiades
I do the latter.

Socrates
And what if you should be on a ship at sea? Would you think


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