Plato, Meno, section 83d

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[83d] and half the size of this other?

Boy
Yes.

Socrates
Will it not be made from a line longer than the one of these, and shorter than the other?

Boy
I think so.

Socrates
Excellent: always answer just what you think. Now tell me, did we not draw this line two feet, and that four?

Boy
Yes.

Socrates
Then the line on the side of the eight-foot figure should be more than this of two feet, and less than the other of four?

Boy
It should.

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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