[510a]
first, shadows, and then reflections in water
and on surfaces of dense, smooth and bright texture, and everything of that
kind, if you apprehend.” “I do.” “As
the second section assume that of which this is a likeness or an image, that
is, the animals about us and all plants and the whole class of objects made
by man.” “I so assume it,” he said.
“Would you be willing to say,” said I, “that
the division in respect of reality and truth or the opposite is expressed by
the proportion:1 as is the opinable to the knowable so is the likeness to that
1 Cf. on 508 C, p. 103. note b.
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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