Plato, Theaetetus, section 191e

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[191e] cannot be imprinted we forget and do not know.

Theaetetus
Let us assume that.

Socrates
Now take a man who knows the things which he sees and hears, and is considering some one of them; observe whether he may not gain a false opinion in the following manner.

Theaetetus
In what manner?

Socrates
By thinking that the things which he knows are sometimes things which he knows and sometimes things which he does not know. For we were wrong before in agreeing that this is impossible.

Theaetetus
What do you say about it now?

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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