Dialogue

 1  Meno|       existences. The germs of two valuable principles of education
 2  Meno|   progression by antagonism of two opposite aspects of philosophy.
 3  Meno|     partly derived from one or two passages in his Dialogues
 4  Meno|      was the natural answer to two questions, ‘Whence came
 5  Meno|    likened to a charioteer and two steeds, one mortal, the
 6  Meno|     the ideas are spoken of in two ways, which though not contradictory
 7  Meno|        which is assailed takes two or three forms, but fails
 8  Meno|        we may hold fast one or two. The being of God in a personal
 9  Meno|       substance of Spinoza has two attributes, which alone
10  Meno|    They may be regarded as the two aspects or expressions under
11  Meno|       but the transposition of two words. For objects of sense
12  Meno|       side of the figure be of two feet, and the other side
13  Meno|       and the other side be of two feet, how much will the
14  Meno|     direction the space was of two feet, and in the other direction
15  Meno|    foot, the whole would be of two feet taken once?~BOY: Yes.~
16  Meno|     since this side is also of two feet, there are twice two
17  Meno|      two feet, there are twice two feet?~BOY: There are.~SOCRATES:
18  Meno|    Then the square is of twice two feet?~BOY: Yes.~SOCRATES:
19  Meno|         And how many are twice two feet? count and tell me.~
20  Meno|    that double square: this is two feet—what will that be?~
21  Meno|      me, is not this a line of two feet and that of four?~BOY:
22  Meno|      be more than this line of two feet, and less than the
23  Meno|     add a half to this line of two, that will be the line of
24  Meno|        line of three. Here are two and there is one; and on
25  Meno|       the other side, here are two also and there is one: and
26  Meno|     And how many in this?~BOY: Two.~SOCRATES: And four is how
27  Meno|     And four is how many times two?~BOY: Twice.~SOCRATES: And
28  Meno|      he, as you are aware, had two sons, Paralus and Xanthippus.~
29  Meno|      again that Thucydides had two sons, Melesias and Stephanus,
30  Meno| Clearly not.~SOCRATES: Then of two good and useful things,