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I
said; “but what I mean is, that deception in the soul about
realities, to have been deceived and to be blindly ignorant and to have and
hold the falsehood there, is what all men would least of all accept, and it
is in that case that they loathe it most of all.” “Quite
so,” he said. “But surely it would be most wholly right,
as I was just now saying, to describe this as in very truth
falsehood—ignorance namely in the soul of the man deceived. For
the falsehood in words is a copy1 of the affection in the soul,
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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