did the equals by themselves2 ever appear clearly unequal to you, or equality inequality?'
'Not so far, Socrates.'
'In that case,' Socrates said, 'those other equals'3 and the equal itself are not the same thing.'
'It doesn't appear so at all, to me, Socrates.'
'And yet it's from these equals', said Socrates, 'even while they're distinct from that other one, that you've nevertheless come to have in mind, and gained, your knowledge of it?'
'Very true,' said Simmias.
'Then you've got that knowledge…
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