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Theaetetus
And very suddenly, too.Socrates
Yes, for we are not watching it carefully. Perhaps we ought to have said that the syllable is not the letters, but a single concept that has arisen from them, having a single form of its own, different from the letters.Theaetetus
Certainly; and perhaps that will be better than the other way.Socrates
Let us look into that; we must not give up in such unmanly fashion a great and impressive theory.Theaetetus
No, we must not.
And very suddenly, too.Socrates
Yes, for we are not watching it carefully. Perhaps we ought to have said that the syllable is not the letters, but a single concept that has arisen from them, having a single form of its own, different from the letters.Theaetetus
Certainly; and perhaps that will be better than the other way.Socrates
Let us look into that; we must not give up in such unmanly fashion a great and impressive theory.Theaetetus
No, we must not.