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[190e] And so anyone who sets out to define false opinion as interchanged opinion would be talking nonsense. Then neither by this method nor by our previous methods is false opinion found to exist in us.

Theaetetus
Apparently not.

Socrates
But yet, Theaetetus, if this is found not to exist, we shall be forced to admit many absurdities.

Theaetetus
What absurdities?

Socrates
I will not tell you until I have tried to consider the matter in every way. For I should be ashamed of us, if, in our perplexity, we were forced to make such admissions as those to which I refer. But if we find the object of our quest,


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