Plato · thesis 5>54

Thesis 5>54

Latin

Ideo dixit Socrates in Cratylo se somniare circa ideas, quia ideis non utimur in hoc statu, sed earum imaginibus proximis uel secundariis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23097

English

Socrates says in the Cratylus that he only dreams about the ideas, and the reason is this: in our present state we work not with the ideas themselves but with their nearest, or secondary, images.

Sense checked against farmer1998:23153; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:23153; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 5>, conclusions on the doctrine of Plato) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>70 Cum tres fuerint qui dicerent omnia esse unum: Zenophanes, Parmenides, et Melissus, uidebit qui diligenter eorum dicta perscrutabitur, Zenop