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Socrates
Vexation at my own stupidity and genuine garrulity. For what else could you call it when a man drags his arguments up and down because he is so stupid that he cannot be convinced, and is hardly to be induced to give up any one of them?Theaetetus
But you, why are you vexed?Socrates
I am not merely vexed, I am actually afraid; for I do not know what answer to make if anyone asks me: “Socrates, have you found out, I wonder, that false opinion exists neither in the relations of the perceptions to one another nor in the thoughts,
Vexation at my own stupidity and genuine garrulity. For what else could you call it when a man drags his arguments up and down because he is so stupid that he cannot be convinced, and is hardly to be induced to give up any one of them?Theaetetus
But you, why are you vexed?Socrates
I am not merely vexed, I am actually afraid; for I do not know what answer to make if anyone asks me: “Socrates, have you found out, I wonder, that false opinion exists neither in the relations of the perceptions to one another nor in the thoughts,