The Republic · ¶5357
Sight, placed in the class of faculties, 5. 477 C; requires in addition to vision and colour, a third element, light, 6. 507; the most wonderful of the senses, ibid.; compared to mind, ib. 508; 7. 532 A; illusions of, 7. 523; 10. 602, 603 D: —the world of sight, 7. 517.Read in context ›
Plato · translated by Benjamin Jowett · composite transcription based on the 1888 third edition
Benjamin Jowett, revised third edition (1888), with Stephanus numbering from the 1908 edition; composite transcription, Project Gutenberg #55201
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