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Theaetetus
By (Author) Plato
Introduction by Bernard Williams
Translated by M. J. Levett
Revised by Myles Burnyeat
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
15th October 1992
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
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128
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
114g
This is an English translation of Plato's dialogue concerning the nature of knowledge. In this dialogue, Socrates and Theaetetus discuss three definitions of knowledge: knowledge as nothing but perception, as true judgment and as true judgment with an account.
Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and are non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and a glossary intending to provide the reader with some sense of the terms and the concepts as they were understood by Platos immediate audience.