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from On the Republic of Plato: Essays 7–15
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2022
If it is necessary that we too should speak about the Cave and all the things outside the Cave and their resemblance (homoiotês) to reality (ta pragmata), let us first discuss how Plato himself divided all things in the cutting up of the Line (Rep. VI 509d–511e5).17 In those [divisions] as well he makes the things inside the Cave represent the objects of opinion (doxasta), and makes the things outside the Cave represent the objects of understanding (gnôsta). It is for this reason too that, in addition to the division itself, when he has completed it in the sixth book (VI 511d6, ff.), he immediately adapted this image at the very beginning of the seventh (VII 514a1, ff.)
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