Drifting

The first filter is the truth: "Are you absolutely sure that what are you going to tell me is true? " - "No," said the man, "really I only heard about that ........ " - "Well, then you really do not know if it's true or not".

Now let me apply the second, the goodness filter: "Is it something good that you are going to tell me about my friend?" - "No, on the contrary ........." -

-"So," continued Socrates, "you want to tell me something bad about him, but you're not sure it's true.

You can still pass the exam, because there is still one last filter, The utility filter: "Will what you're going to tell me about my friend be useful to me?" - "No not really". - "Well," Socrates concluded, If what you want to tell me something that is not true or good and is not even useful,

why do you want to tell me that? "