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Hippocrates and true reason say about nature. In considering the nature of anything, must we not consider first, whether that in respect to which we wish to be learned ourselves and to make others learned is simple or multiform, and then, if it is simple, enquire what power of acting it possesses, or of being acted upon, and by what, and if it has many forms, number them, and then see in the case of each form, as we did in the case of the simple nature, what its action is and how it is acted upon and by what?Phaedrus
Very likely, Socrates.Socrates
At any rate, any other mode of procedure would be
Very likely, Socrates.Socrates
At any rate, any other mode of procedure would be