Plato, Philebus, section 13e

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[13e]

Protarchus
How? Tell me.

Socrates
Assume, Protarchus, that I am questioned in turn by you.

Protarchus
What question do I ask?

Socrates
Whether wisdom and knowledge and intellect and all the things which I said at first were good, when you asked me what is good, will not have the same fate as this argument of yours.

Protarchus
How is that?

Socrates
It will appear that the forms of knowledge collectively are many and some of them are unlike each other; but if some of them

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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