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on the part of our argument.Protarchus
What is the solemn declaration?Socrates
That fixed and pure and true and what we call unalloyed knowledge has to do with the things which are eternally the same without change or mixture, or with that which is most akin to them; and all other things are to be regarded as secondary and inferior.Protarchus
Very true.Socrates
And of the names applied to such matters, it would be fairest to give the finest names to the finest things, would it not?Protarchus
That is reasonable.
What is the solemn declaration?Socrates
That fixed and pure and true and what we call unalloyed knowledge has to do with the things which are eternally the same without change or mixture, or with that which is most akin to them; and all other things are to be regarded as secondary and inferior.Protarchus
Very true.Socrates
And of the names applied to such matters, it would be fairest to give the finest names to the finest things, would it not?Protarchus
That is reasonable.