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Quotation from Theaetetus by Plato
“Let us say that this tablet is a gift of Memory, the mother of the Muses”
Theaetetus, False judgment: the wax tablet, c. 191d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892)
Socrates introduces the image of the soul as a block of wax that receives impressions like a seal.
Citation: "Let us say that this tablet is a gift of Memory, the mother of the Muses" — Plato, Theaetetus, False judgment: the wax tablet, c. 191d, trans. Benjamin Jowett (1892). (id plato-theaetetus-q9)
