Excerpt from Plato's Theory of Eika ia It is strange that in a place marked by the suppressed but tense emotion of one who is setting forth the very essence of all that he has thought, there should occur without the least hint or warning a. Passage which has no counterpart in his thinking, which is at its best superfluous - and at its worst misleading. It is stranger still that in a later dialogue - The Sophist - the very turning point of the argument, the question of the possibility of error and of sophistry, should rest upon a similar meaningless distinction expressed in almost identical words. If we have any respect at all for Plato as a thinker we must put this down as grotesquely improbable; and the mere, incapacity of the critic to understand his doctrine will not be for us a sufficient proof that there is no doctrine to understand. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.