I was thinking about the digression in the Theaetetus that we discussed on Tuesday. It seemed that the allusion to the Republic, among other things, pointed to the fact that the potential of some knowledge was what differentiated Socratic skepticism with Protagorean relativism, and that these questions were important, not just to Socrates and star geometry students like Theaetetus, but to everyone.
Perhaps this point was the intent of the digression, and why Plato has Theodorus remark to Socrates that he followed and understood the digression much better. The conversations that Socrates and Theaetetus have may not be understood by all, but we all can certainly try, for the ramifications of their discussions affect us all.
And perhaps that importance is at once epistemically and morally normative.
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