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    Plato, Cratylus, Theaetetus, Sophist, Statesman

    Theaetetus: Socrates

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    [189e] have a thought either of both things together or of one or the other of them?

    Theaetetus

    Yes, it must; either of both at the same time or in succession.

    Socrates

    Excellent. And do you define thought as I do?

    Theaetetus

    How do you define it?

    Socrates

    As the talk which the soul has with itself about any subjects which it considers. You must not suppose that I know this that I am declaring to you. But the soul, as the image presents itself to me, when it thinks, is merely conversing with itself, asking itself questions and answering,


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    Cross references from Walter Leaf, Commentary on the Iliad (1900):
    17, 214 [Book 17 (R)]

    Cross references from James Adam, The Republic of Plato:
    3, 400D

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    This text is based on the following book(s):
    Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 12 translated by Harold N. Fowler. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921.
    OCLC: 21777623, 26697110, 20083931
    ISBN: 0674991850, 0674991370, 0674991826

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