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As to the manner in which the ignorance is removed and the man of

Imperfect Self-Control recovers his Knowledge, the account is the

same as with respect to him who is drunk or asleep, and is not

peculiar to this affection, so physiologists[8] are the right

people to apply to.

But whereas the minor premiss of every practical syllogism is an

opinion on matter cognisable by Sense and determines the actions;

he who is under the influence of passion either has not this, or

so has it that his having does not amount to knowing but merely

saying, as a man when drunk might repeat Empedocles' verses; and

because the minor term[9] is neither universal, nor is thought to

have the power of producing Knowledge in like manner as the

universal term: and so the result which Socrates was seeking

comes out, that is to say, the affection does not take place in

the presence of that which is thought to be specially and

properly Knowledge, nor is this dragged about by reason of the

affection, but in the presence of that Knowledge which is

conveyed by Sense.