Plato, Theaetetus, section 185a

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[185a] what you perceive through another; for instance, to perceive through sight what you perceive through hearing, or through hearing what you perceive through sight?

Theaetetus
Of course I shall.

Socrates
Then if you have any thought about both of these together, you would not have perception about both together either through one organ or through the other.

Theaetetus
No.

Socrates
Now in regard to sound and color, you have, in the first place, this thought about both of them, that they both exist?

Theaetetus
Certainly.

Socrates
And that each is different from the other and the same as itself?

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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