At last they feel something heavy, and with vast labour draw up, not a load of fish, but only a pot full of sand, or a great stone.
-- I don't understand what you mean by the net.

It is plain that you have caught me in it.
-- Try to get out! You can swim as well as another.

We may go to all philosophers in turn and make trial of them.

Still, I, for my part, hold it by no mean certain that any one of them really possesses what we seek.

The truth may be a thing that not one of them has yet found.
You have twenty beans in your hand, and you bid ten persons guess how many: one says five, another fifteen; it is possible that one of them may tell the true number; but it is not impossible that all may be wrong.