S. “It is therefore not a moral faculty, this spirit of truth. Let us see now whether it be an intellectual one. How are intellectual things defined, Phaethon? Tell me, for you are cunning in such matters.”
P. “Those things which have to do with processes of the mind.”
S. “With right processes, or with wrong?”
P. “With right, of course.”
S. “And processes for what purpose?”
P. “For the discovery of facts.”
S. “Of facts as they are, or as they are not?”
P. “As they are.”
S. “And he who discovers facts as they are, discovers truth; while he who discovers facts as they are not, discovers falsehood?”
P. “He discovers nothing, Socrates.”