Plato, Theaetetus, section 208b

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[208b]

Socrates
But he is still, as we say, without knowledge, though he has right opinion?

Theaetetus
Yes.

Socrates
Yes, but with his opinion he has rational explanation; for he wrote with the method in terms of letters in his mind, and we agreed that that was rational explanation.

Theaetetus
True.

Socrates
There is, then, my friend, a combination of right opinion with rational explanation, which cannot as yet properly be called knowledge?

Theaetetus
There is not much doubt about it.

Socrates
So it seems that the perfectly true definition of knowledge, which we thought we had, was but a golden dream. Or shall we wait a bit before we condemn it? Perhaps the definition to be adopted is not this,

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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