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Theaetetus
Perhaps, Socrates, we were not right in making the birds represent kinds of knowledge only, but we ought to have imagined kinds of ignorance also flying about in the soul with the others; then the hunter would catch sometimes knowledge and sometimes ignorance of the same thing, and through the ignorance he would have false, but through the knowledge true opinion.Socrates
It is not easy, Theaetetus, to refrain from praising you. However, examine your suggestion once more. Let it be as you say:
Perhaps, Socrates, we were not right in making the birds represent kinds of knowledge only, but we ought to have imagined kinds of ignorance also flying about in the soul with the others; then the hunter would catch sometimes knowledge and sometimes ignorance of the same thing, and through the ignorance he would have false, but through the knowledge true opinion.Socrates
It is not easy, Theaetetus, to refrain from praising you. However, examine your suggestion once more. Let it be as you say: