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Theaetetus
Plato · c. 369 BCE · translated by Harold North Fowler
What is knowledge? Three answers tried and all three broken — including "man is the measure of all things".
34,155 words · 20 pages · about 2 h 35 min of reading
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- 146a–149c 1,856 words
- 150b–152a 1,550 words
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- 209c–210a 870 words