Theaetetus, cited

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1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 3 authority · 1 extended 4 citations

   book 1 · book 2 3 passages anchored here

   Explicitly named: 'And in the Theaetetus too you would find again', followed by direct quotation.

   "And the easy use of names and verbs, not examined with exactness, is for the most part not ignoble, but rather its opposite is illiberal, though it is sometimes necessary.

2. De Anima Tertullian 1 refuted 1 citation

   de anima

   The Theaetetus is cited alongside the Phaedrus and Phaedo as evidence of Plato's skepticism about sense-knowledge.

   But indeed Plato, that he might set no mark of testimony upon the senses, therefore in the Phaedrus too, in the person of Socrates, denies that he can know himself, as the Delphic inscription admonishes, and in the Theaetetus takes from himself knowing and perceiving, and in the Phaedo defers his verdict until after death, a posthumous verdict on truth, namely — and yet, not yet dead, he was philosophizing.