Theaetetus

Theaetetus
by Plato translated by Benjamin Jowett

"The Theaetetus is one of Plato's dialogues concerning the nature of knowledge. The framing of the dialogue begins when Euclides tells his friend Terpsion that he wrote a book many years ago based on what Socrates told him of a conversation he had with Theaetetus when he was quite a young man. Euclides had seen Theaetetus being carried off the battlefield with a case of dysentery and a minor war wound. Euclides says that Socrates correctly pro...