Plato, Sophist, section 229c

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[229c]

Stranger
I at any rate think I do see one large and grievous kind of ignorance, separate from the rest, and as weighty as all the other parts put together.

Theaetetus
What is it?

Stranger
Thinking that one knows a thing when one does not know it. Through this, I believe, all the mistakes of the mind are caused in all of us.

Theaetetus
True.

Stranger
And furthermore to this kind of ignorance alone the name of stupidity is given.

Theaetetus
Certainly.

Stranger
Now what name is to be given to that part of instruction which gets rid of 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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