Plato's dialogue Theaetetus asks the question of what knowledge is,
how human beings acquire it, and how knowledge relates to both
perception and judgement. This dialogue is told as a frame story,
whereby Euclid and a friend are read a dialogue from the time
Theaetetus was a young man. In it Theaetetus, a teacher of
geometry, is talking with Socrates. At first they discuss the
students, but soon move on to the core subject of knowledge and
what it is to know things. It is in this dialogue that Socrates
famously compares himself to a midwife, which was his mother's
profession. Whereas she showed expertise in bringing a newborn
child into the world, Socrates' rather is skilled at bringing new
knowledge forth from the minds of those on the cusp of birthing
such thoughts. A classic Platonic dialogue, this edition of
Theaetetus is the translation of renowned classical scholar
Benjamin Jowett.
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