Plato, Theaetetus, section 192e

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[192e]

Theaetetus
Certainly.

Socrates
This, then, is the first of the points which I wish to make clear. Note that one may perceive or not perceive that which one knows.

Theaetetus
That is true.

Socrates
So, too, with that which he does not know—he may often not even perceive it, and often he may merely perceive it?

Theaetetus
That too is possible.

Socrates
See if you follow me better now. If Socrates

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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