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of view. What makes the Thaeetetus still less tolerable is that he professedly introduces were whom the pseuco Socrates easily winds up with
arguments which Plato himself must have seen were not sound. It was a discussion stimulating undoubtedly to young minds and we may presume that Plato intended much to be for the benefit of his younger students. It furnished a good subject for the exercize of their acumen. The questions is what is knowledge? Now we have learned to perceive very clearly that nother can be done with this question without first discriminating very different things that go by the name of logic. But Plato makes one hodge podge of the question nowhere distinguishes between savior and [connaitve?] while on the other hand he draws a line far too black between infallible knowledge which is only an ideal; and a grade of cognition practically quite satifactory. As for lower grades which ought to have been taken into account they are quite[thrown?] out. Then again