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that
we were assigning to the just, since you don't shrink from putting it in the
category of virtue and wisdom.” “You are a most
veritable prophet,” he replied. “Well,” said
I, “I mustn't flinch from following out the logic of the inquiry,
so long as I conceive you to be saying what you think.1 For now, Thrasymachus, I absolutely
believe that you are not 'mocking' us but telling us your real opinions
about the truth.2”
“What difference does it make to you,” he said,
“whether I believe it or not?” “Why don't you
test the argument?”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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