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perceived the objections to the theory. He would naturally at once seek audience with Plato, and a young man of the heroic stock of the [?], brought up in a court and wealthy, who had abandoned his hereditary pursuit in order to study [?] Plato, could not be denied; and since he was anything but timid he would at an early interview have continued an opening for his obligations to the theory of ideas, these objections involving also the thought of a list of categories. Plat's reticence in the Theaetetus concerning Ideas shows that he had then already become cognizant of Aristotle's objections; and when in that dialogue he, for the first time in the history of thought, introduces the conception of a list of categories, he does not claim this, in any degree, for himself or for the pseudo-Socrates, but [bursts?] into admiration for the young man who suggests it. That young man is named Theaetetus; but it would seem that it must have been young Aristotle who was meant, since his objections called for substantially the same list.