Dialogue

 1  Meno|      the examples of figure and colour, and try to define them.’
 2  Meno|        as ‘the accompaniment of colour.’ But some one may object
 3  Meno|        the meaning of the word ‘colour;’ and if he is a candid
 4  Meno|      still have a definition of colour. Some raillery follows;
 5  Meno|         induced to reply, ‘that colour is the effluence of form,
 6  Meno| Socratic Dialogues, and gives a colour to all of them—that mankind
 7  Meno|         he similarly asked what colour is, and you answered whiteness,
 8  Meno|       you say that whiteness is colour or a colour? you would reply,
 9  Meno|        whiteness is colour or a colour? you would reply, A colour,
10  Meno|      colour? you would reply, A colour, because there are other
11  Meno| question either about figure or colour, you were to reply, Man,
12  Meno|      thing which always follows colour. Will you be satisfied with
13  Meno|       that which always follows colour.~(SOCRATES: Granted.)~MENO:
14  Meno|      that he does not know what colour is, any more than what figure
15  Meno|      And now, Socrates, what is colour?~SOCRATES: You are outrageous,
16  Meno|        says, ‘read my meaning:’—colour is an effluence of form,