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Then shall we say that speaking false “is not,” but thinking false “is”?No, it is the same with thinking, he said.So neither is there any false opinion, I said, at all.No, he said.Nor ignorance, nor ignorant men; or must not ignorance occur, if it ever can, when we put things falsely?Certainly, he said.But there is no such thing as this, I said.No, he said.Is it merely to save your statement, Dionysodorus, that you state it so—just to say something startling—or is it really and truly your view that there is no such thing as an ignorant man?
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.
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