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Theaetetus

by Plato

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Socrates, calling himself a midwife to other men’s ideas, presses a brilliant young mathematician for a definition of knowledge. Perception, true belief, and true belief with an account are each proposed and each destroyed. The dialogue ends with nothing settled and epistemology permanently begun.

The most rigorous dialogue Plato wrote, and the most honest. Download the free EPUB.

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