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or what do you mean?' What would have been your
answer to him?” “Humph!” said he,
“how very like the two cases are!” “There is
nothing to prevent,” said I; “yet even granted that they
are not alike, yet if it appears to the person asked the question that they
are alike, do you suppose that he will any the less answer what appears to
him, whether we forbid him or whether we don't?” “Is
that, then,” said he, “what you are going to do? Are you
going to give one of the forbidden answers?” “I
shouldn't be surprised,” I said, “if on reflection that
would be my view.” “What then,”
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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