Dialogue

 1 Intro|       the constant profession of ignorance on the part of Socrates,
 2 Intro|      they conscious of their own ignorance; for they do not practise
 3 Intro|          should reflect that his ignorance makes his condition worse
 4 Intro|        and this is falsehood and ignorance. Error, then, is a confusion
 5 Intro|       well might we suppose that ignorance could make a man know, or
 6 Intro|          mock birds, or forms of ignorance, and we put forth our hands
 7 Intro|        forth our hands and grasp ignorance, when we are intending to
 8 Intro|       knowledge and the forms of ignorance imagine one to be the other?
 9 Intro|          existence. But error or ignorance is essentially negative—
10 Intro| therefore is very different from ignorance. Of the language learnt
11  Thea|       that many of them in their ignorance, either in their self-conceit
12  Thea|          although from habit and ignorance we are compelled even in
13  Thea|         all this is implied that ignorance and wisdom exist among them,
14  Thea|          to be true thought, and ignorance to be false opinion.~THEODORUS:
15  Thea|   Neither is he conscious of his ignorance. For he does not hold aloof
16  Thea|      true wisdom and virtue, and ignorance of this is manifest folly
17  Thea|        know both or when I am in ignorance of both, or when I know
18  Thea|          knows, not by reason of ignorance, but by reason of his own
19  Thea|         might as well argue that ignorance may make a man know, and
20  Thea|      ought to have been forms of ignorance as well, flying about together
21  Thea|          and sometimes a form of ignorance; and thus he would have
22  Thea|        have a false opinion from ignorance, but a true one from knowledge,
23  Thea|   according to you, he who takes ignorance will have a false opinion—
24  Thea|       captured knowledge and not ignorance?~THEAETETUS: Clearly.~SOCRATES:
25  Thea|          a man knows the form of ignorance and the form of knowledge,