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“And if he were borne back,” I said, “he
would both think himself to be moving downward and would think
truly.” “Of course.” “And would not
all this happen to him because of his non-acquaintance with the true and
real up and down and middle?” “Obviously.”
“Would it surprise you, then,” said I, “if
similarly men without experience of truth and reality hold unsound opinions
about many other matters, and are so disposed towards pleasure and pain and
the intermediate neutral condition that, when they are moved in the
direction of the painful,
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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