Plato, Theaetetus, section 209a

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[209a]

Socrates
I will tell you if I can. Assume that I have right opinion about you; if I add the explanation or definition of you, then I have knowledge of you, otherwise I have merely opinion.

Theaetetus
Yes.

Socrates
But explanation was, we agreed, the interpretation of your difference.

Theaetetus
It was.

Socrates
Then so long as I had merely opinion, I did not grasp in my thought any of the points in which you differ from others?

Theaetetus
Apparently not.

Socrates
Therefore I was thinking of some one of the common traits which you possess no more than other men.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.

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