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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Theaetetus by Plato: SOCRATES: Then he will think that he has captured knowledge and not
ignorance?
THEAETETUS: Clearly.
SOCRATES: And thus, after going a long way round, we are once more face to
face with our original difficulty. The hero of dialectic will retort upon
us:--'O my excellent friends, he will say, laughing, if a man knows the
form of ignorance and the form of knowledge, can he think that one of them
which he knows is the other which he knows? or, if he knows neither of
them, can he think that the one which he knows not is another which he
knows not? or, if he knows one and not the other, can he think the one
which he knows to be the one which he does not know? or the one which he
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