Plato, Gorgias, section 454d

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[454d]

Socrates
Then do you think that having learnt and having believed, or learning and belief, are the same thing, or different?

Gorgias
In my opinion, Socrates, they are different.

Socrates
And your opinion is right, as you can prove in this way: if some one asked you—Is there, Gorgias, a false and a true belief?—you would say, Yes, I imagine.

Gorgias
I should.

Socrates
But now, is there a false and a true knowledge?

Gorgias
Surely not.

Socrates
So it is evident again that they¹ are not the same.

Gorgias
You are right.

1 i.e. knowledge and belief.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 3 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967.

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