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which we conceive to be absolute ideas are unknown to us.”“I am afraid they are.”“Now we come to a still more fearful consequence.”“What is it?”“You would say, no doubt, that if there is an absolute kind of knowledge, it is far more accurate than our knowledge, and the same of beauty and all the rest?”“Yes.”“And if anything partakes of absolute knowledge, you would say that there is no one more likely than God to possess this most accurate knowledge?”“Of course.”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 9 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1925.
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