¹ The Theaetetus of Plato (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company 1990), 7–10.Google Scholar

² There are many confusions at work in this passage. One arises from the failure to distinguish between ‘x perceives that y is F’ and ‘y appears F to x’. I wonder if this does not give rise to another. Socrates is made to say, not that ‘x perceives that’ is the same as ‘It appears to x that’, but that ‘It appears’ is the same as ‘perceive’ (the infinitive). Could it be that in passing from ‘aisthanetai (einai) to pneuma psuchron’ to ‘phainetai (einai) to pneuma psuchron heautōi’, he took ‘psuchron heautōi’ to be what the new idiom presented as the (more accurate) description of the content of the perception/appearing, taking ‘heautōi’ to qualify ‘psuchron’ rather than ‘phainetai’?

³ I am grateful to Michael Welbourne and Christopher Rowe for their comments on a draft of this note.