[110d]
Socrates
So you do not know it by discovery.Alcibiades
Not at all, apparently.Socrates
But you said just now that you did not know it by learning either; and if you neither discovered nor learnt it, how do you come to know it, and whence?Alcibiades
Well, perhaps that answer I gave you was not correct, that I knew it by my own discovery.Socrates
Then how was it done?Alcibiades
I learnt it, I suppose, in the same way as everyone else.Socrates
Back we come to the same argument. From whom? Please tell me.
So you do not know it by discovery.Alcibiades
Not at all, apparently.Socrates
But you said just now that you did not know it by learning either; and if you neither discovered nor learnt it, how do you come to know it, and whence?Alcibiades
Well, perhaps that answer I gave you was not correct, that I knew it by my own discovery.Socrates
Then how was it done?Alcibiades
I learnt it, I suppose, in the same way as everyone else.Socrates
Back we come to the same argument. From whom? Please tell me.
