The Theaetetus of Plato

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Excerpt from The Theaetetus of Plato: Translated, With Introduction and Brief Explanatory Notes The subject of the Theoetetus is the inquiry, What is Knowledge? This question might be put, and perhaps in a form more familiar to ourselves, What is Truth? Everyone who has thought at all knows how difficult is the answer. The thinkers of old, bewildered by the differences of opinion that prevailed on all speculative subjects, concluded that nothing was certainly true that did not fall under the cognizance of the senses. Thus: 'I am quite certain that fire is hot, or that this stone is hard, because I feel it so. But I am not sure that God exists, or that this action is right or wrong, because moral and metaphysical questions do not fall within the province of sense. They are only matters of conviction, and people do not agree about them.' The existence then of any positive or objective truth residing outside of things phenomenal and independent of opinion, was denied by this school. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.