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“Surely.” “Take the case of any four other
things. If we were looking for any one of them in anything and recognized
the object of our search first, that would have been enough for us, but if
we had recognized the other three first, that in itself would have made
known to us the thing we were seeking. For plainly there was nothing left
for it to be but the remainder.” “Right,” he
said. “And so, since these are four, we must conduct the search in
the same way.” “Clearly.” “And,
moreover,
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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