Plato, Theaetetus, section 210b

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[210b] combined with true opinion could be knowledge.

Theaetetus
Apparently not.

Socrates
Are we then, my friend, still pregnant and in travail with knowledge, or have we brought forth everything?

Theaetetus
Yes, we have, and, by Zeus, Socrates, with your help I have already said more than there was in me.

Socrates
Then does our art of midwifery declare to us that all the offspring that have been born are mere wind-eggs and not worth rearing?

Theaetetus
It does, decidedly.

Socrates
If after this you ever undertake to conceive other thoughts, Theaetetus, and do conceive,

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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