Plato, Theaetetus, section 184b

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[184b] about knowledge with which he is pregnant.

Theodorus
Yes, if that is your opinion, we ought to do so.

Socrates
Consider, then, Theaetetus, this further point about what has been said. Now you answered that perception is knowledge, did you not?

Theaetetus
Yes.

Socrates
If, then, anyone should ask you, “By what does a man see white and black colors and by what does he hear high and low tones?” you would, I fancy, say, “By his eyes and ears.”

Theaetetus
Yes, I should.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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