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Book I Chapter 59 · I.59.1.4–I.59.1.5
Ancient Greek
p. 16941.4
Τί δ᾽ ὅταν δόξα μὴ καθ᾽ αὑτὴν ἀλλὰ δι᾽ αἰσθήσεως παρῇ τινι τὸ τοιοῦτον αὖ πάθος, οἷόν τε ὀρθῶς εἰπεῖν ἕτερόν τι πλὴν φαντασίαν;
Οὐδέν.
1.5
Οὐκοῦν ἐπείπερ λόγος ἀληθὴς ἦν καὶ ψευδής, τούτων δ᾽ ἐφάνη διάνοια μὲν αὐτῆς πρὸς ἑαυτὴν ψυχῆς διάλογος, δόξα δὲ διανοίας ἀποτελεύτησις, φαίνεται δὲ ὃ λέγομεν σύμμιξις αἰσθήσεως καὶ δόξης, ἀνάγκη δὴ καὶ τούτων τῶν λόγων συγγενῶν ὄντων, ψευδῆ τε αὐτῶν ἔνια καὶ ἐνίοτε εἶναι;
Πῶς δ᾽ οὔ;
Κατανοεῖς οὖν, ὅτι πρότερον εὑρέθη ψευδὴς δόξα καὶ λόγος.
Stobaeus, Volume I: Book I Chapter 59
p. 16951.4 · Belief through perception
“And when belief comes to someone, not by itself but through perception, can this sort of experience in turn rightly be called anything other than appearance?”
“Nothing else.”2061
1.5 · The related forms of discourse
“Then, since speech could be true or false, and among these things thought proved to be the soul’s dialogue with itself, belief the completion of thought, and what we call ‘it appears’ a mixture of perception and belief, must not some of these too sometimes be false, since these forms of discourse are related?”
“How could it be otherwise?”
“You understand, then, that false belief and speech have been discovered first.”2062
Socrates
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