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But he remarks that whatever we seek either to learn or to teach must be examined to see whether it is simple or multiple [foreign text] and then the mode of
revelation of each form [foreign text] The whole proceeding should be based on phsychological principles [foreign text]. The Thaeltetus is a logical dialogue when we pass from a series of Plato's ethical dialogues even if they are largely metaphysical to a logical dialogue we find it tedious stuff. In ethics he is so far advanced beyond most
people whom we meet even cultivated people even moralists that we find most refreshing instructive elevating. We quite dtop the historical attitude. [Keis?] metaphysics on the other hand is very bad but then the metaphysics of today is hardly enough better to deprive what he has to say of all interests. But of logic he knew hardly anything which we know much and what he says is toocrude to be of any interest except from a historical point