[190c]
Socrates
Do you imagine that anyone else, sane or insane, ever ventured to say to himself seriously and try to persuade himself that the ox must necessarily be a horse, or two one?Theaetetus
No, by Zeus, I do not.Socrates
Then if forming opinion is talking to oneself, no one who talks and forms opinion of two objects and apprehends them both with his soul, could say and have the opinion that one is the other. But you will also have to give up the expression “one and other.” This is what I mean, that nobody holds the opinion that the ugly is beautiful, or
Do you imagine that anyone else, sane or insane, ever ventured to say to himself seriously and try to persuade himself that the ox must necessarily be a horse, or two one?Theaetetus
No, by Zeus, I do not.Socrates
Then if forming opinion is talking to oneself, no one who talks and forms opinion of two objects and apprehends them both with his soul, could say and have the opinion that one is the other. But you will also have to give up the expression “one and other.” This is what I mean, that nobody holds the opinion that the ugly is beautiful, or
