Plato, Theaetetus, section 154a

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[154a] will be in each instance neither that which impinges nor that which is impinged upon, but something between, which has occurred, peculiar to each individual. Or would you maintain that each color appears to a dog, or any other animal you please, just as it does to you?

Theaetetus
No, by Zeus, I wouldn't.

Socrates
Well, does anything whatsoever appear the same to any other man as to you? Are you sure of this? Or are you not much more convinced that nothing appears the same even to you, because you yourself are never exactly the same?

Theaetetus
Yes, I am much more convinced of the last.

Socrates
Then, if that with which I compare myself in size, or which I touch,

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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