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is wiser than we, and if, for example, he should emerge from the ground, here at our feet, if only as far as the neck, he would prove abundantly that I was making a fool of myself by my talk, in all probability, and you by agreeing with me; then he would sink down and be off at a run. But we, I suppose, must depend on ourselves, such as we are, and must say just what we think. And so now must we not say that everybody would agree that some men are wiser and some more ignorant than others?Theodorus
Yes, I think at least we must.Socrates
And do you think his doctrine might stand most firmly in the form in which we sketched it when defending Protagoras,
Yes, I think at least we must.Socrates
And do you think his doctrine might stand most firmly in the form in which we sketched it when defending Protagoras,