Dialogue

 1 Euthyd|     individual. How to put together words or ideas, how to escape
 2 Euthyd|          how to distinguish between words and things—these were problems
 3 Euthyd|        imposed upon by illusions of words.~The logic of Aristotle
 4 Euthyd|             Phaedrus; the nature of words is analysed in the Cratylus;
 5 Euthyd|           all questions relating to words and propositions and the
 6 Euthyd|             the introduction of the words ‘subject’ and ‘object’ and
 7 Euthyd|           Eristic, or fighting with words, which they are likewise
 8 Euthyd|            informed, in reply, that words are lifeless things, and
 9 Euthyd|          vision.’ A similar play of words follows, which is successfully
10 Euthyd|         mind, begin to pass away in words. They subsist only as forms
11 Euthyd| abstractions is now attached to the words which are the signs of them.
12 Euthyd|           and mere puns or plays of words received serious attention;
13 Euthyd|            the philosophers who put words in the place of things,
14 Euthyd|     language, which allows the same words to be used in different
15 Euthyd|           their skill in the war of words, that they can refute any
16 Euthyd|            as you imagine.~At these words the followers of Euthydemus,
17 Euthyd|           them with distinctions of words. He would be like a person
18 Euthyd|           you may have to deny your words.~I have reflected, I said;
19 Euthyd|           and I shall never deny my words.~Well, said he, and so you
20 Euthyd|             quarrel with them about words, but be thankful for what
21 Euthyd|           Well, have not all things words expressive of them?~Yes.~
22 Euthyd|          but are non-plussed at the words which I have just uttered?~
23 Euthyd|            answer; for they are the words of wise men: and indeed
24 Euthyd|            argument. Tell me if the words have any other sense.~No,
25 Euthyd|            you ask me what sense my words had?~Why, because I was
26 Euthyd|            after all in saying that words have a sense;—what do you
27 Euthyd|            that there would be high words, I again endeavoured to
28 Euthyd|             I said; and I take your words to be a sufficient proof
29 Euthyd|          know is that I heard these words, and that they were not
30 Euthyd|         catch me in his springes of words. And I remembered that Connus
31 Euthyd|            required to withdraw the words ‘when I know.’~You always
32 Euthyd|          said, I will take away the words ‘that I know.’~Nay, take
33 Euthyd|        qualification implied in the words ‘that I know’ is not allowed
34 Euthyd|             power to make good your words unless you have the help
35 Euthyd|         said, do not be rough; good words, if you please; in the way
36 Euthyd|              Bravo, Heracles, brave words, said he.~Bravo Heracles,
37 Euthyd|           of the speakers and their words, and what with laughing
38 Euthyd|           indeed, to admire in your words, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus,
39 Euthyd|         Crito; and after a few more words had passed between us we