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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: Surely I can have no conception of Theaetetus until your snub-
nosedness has left an impression on my mind different from the snub-
nosedness of all others whom I have ever seen, and until your other
peculiarities have a like distinctness; and so when I meet you to-morrow
the right opinion will be re-called?
THEAETETUS: Most true.
SOCRATES: Then right opinion implies the perception of differences?
THEAETETUS: Clearly.
SOCRATES: What, then, shall we say of adding reason or explanation to
right opinion? If the meaning is, that we should form an opinion of the
way in which something differs from another thing, the proposal is
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