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Book I Chapter 59 · I.59.1.2–I.59.1.3
Ancient Greek
p. 16921.2
Οὐκοῦν διάνοια μὲν καὶ λόγος ταὐτόν· πλὴν ὁ μὲν ἐντὸς τῆς ψυχῆς πρὸς αὑτὴν διάλογος ἄνευ φωνῆς γιγνόμενος τοῦτ᾽ αὐτὸ ἡμῖν ἐπωνομάσθη διάνοια;
Πάνυ μὲν οὖν.
Τὸ δ᾽ ἀπ᾽ ἐκείνης ῥεῦμα διὰ τοῦ στόματος ἰὸν μετὰ φθόγγου κέκληται λόγος;
Ἀληθῆ.
1.3
Καὶ μὴν ἐν λόγοις γε αὐτὸ ἴσμεν ἐνόν.
Τὸ ποῖον;
Φάσιν τε καὶ ἀπόφασιν.
Ἴσμεν.
Ὅταν οὖν τοῦτο ἐν ψυχῇ κατὰ διάνοιαν ἐγγίγνηται μετὰ σιγῆς, πλὴν δόξης ἔχεις ὅ τι προσείπῃς αὐτό;
Καὶ πῶς;
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 59
p. 16931.2 · Thought as silent dialogue
“Then thought and speech are the same, except that the dialogue occurring within the soul with itself, without voice, has been given precisely this name by us: thought?”
“Certainly.”
“And the stream from the soul that passes through the mouth with sound has been called speech?”
“True.”2059
1.3 · Assertion, denial, and belief
“And we know that this is present in speech.”
“What?”
“Assertion and denial.”
“We do.”
“So when this occurs silently within the soul in thought, have you any name for it other than belief?”
“How could I?”2060
Socrates
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