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cerning which there can be neither ignorance nor opinion? His memory is good. But of what use can memory be if he only care for true knowledge? He must have a well proportioned and graceful understanding. [foreign text]486D. Adimantus here remarks that one feels he is led a little astray at each step of the argument owing to his inferior skill in dialectic and the littles accumulating at the end of the argument the error and opposition to their preconceived views are great and they are gradually shut up like unskilled players of draughts. 487B But when we come to compare your conclusions with experience we find that those who go in for philosophy not attacking it as youths for the take of education but wasting time over it when they are grown up become much of then uncouth not to say utterly depraved and those who may be considered the most capable of them are rendered useless to the state by the