Plato, Theaetetus, section 186e

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[186e]

Theaetetus
Perceiving. What other name can I give it?

Socrates
Collectively you call it, then, perception?

Theaetetus
Of course.

Socrates
By which, we say, we are quite unable to apprehend truth, since we cannot apprehend being, either.

Theaetetus
No; certainly not.

Socrates
Nor knowledge either, then.

Theaetetus
No.

Socrates
Then, Theaetetus, perception and knowledge could never be the same.

Theaetetus
Evidently not, Socrates; and indeed now at last it has been made perfectly clear that knowledge is something different from perception.

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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