Dialogue

 1 Parme|       it might be sufficient to say, that no ancient writing
 2 Parme|          being many, that is to say, having many parts or members,
 3 Parme|            Yes.’ ‘And would you say that each man is covered
 4 Parme|           And would you like to say that the ideas are really
 5 Parme|     unconscious truth (shall we say?) or error, which underlay
 6 Parme| difficulties mankind, as we may say, a little parodying the
 7 Parme|          he is only required to say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ in the right
 8 Parme|         already offered. May we say, in Platonic language, that
 9 Parme|          undiscerning tribe who say that things both are and
10 Parme|         are alone, though I may say with Ibycus, who in his
11 Parme|      will be the most likely to say what he thinks, and his
12 Parme|         one be one or many? You say one only; let us see. In
13 Parme|        same thing; and when you say that the other is other
14 Parme|       becomes older, that is to say, younger and older than
15 Parme|    being:—do we mean by this to say that a thing, which is not,
16 Parme|        it. It would be safer to say that it is an indication
17 Parme|        no one has ever meant to say that three and one are to
18 Parme|   Megarians. He did not mean to say that Being or Substance
19 Parme|         of thought. He does not say with Bacon, ‘Let us make
20 Parme|  impossibility. In all that you say have you any other purpose
21 Parme|  writings too; he puts what you say in another way, and would
22 Parme|         For you, in your poems, say The All is one, and of this
23 Parme|        that I was many he would say that I have a right and
24 Parme|    prove that I am one, he will say, that we who are here assembled
25 Parme|     places at once. You mean to say, that if I were to spread
26 Parme|         think so.~And would you say that the whole sail includes
27 Parme|          Then would you like to say, Socrates, that the one
28 Parme|     Parmenides, and what do you say of another question?~What
29 Parme|         said Parmenides, if you say that everything else participates
30 Parme|         the ideas, must you not say either that everything is
31 Parme|    indeed.~And, further, let me say that as yet you only understand
32 Parme|         ideas, being such as we say they ought to be, must remain
33 Parme|     Would you, or would you not say, that absolute knowledge,
34 Parme|       if they do exist, he will say that they must of necessity
35 Parme|     said Socrates; and what you say is very much to my mind.~
36 Parme|      will be the most likely to say what he thinks; and his
37 Parme|     else but itself; that is to say, if it were really in itself;
38 Parme| equality or of likeness?~We did say so.~And we also said, that
39 Parme|         very happy to do so.~We say that we have to work out
40 Parme|         Quite right.~We mean to say, that being has not the
41 Parme|      them together shortly, and say ‘One is,’ that is equivalent
42 Parme|   direction.~What direction?~We say that the one partakes of
43 Parme|   abstract the one which, as we say, partakes of being, and
44 Parme|       from that of which, as we say, it partakes—will this abstract
45 Parme|        said?~Yes.~Then shall we say that the one, being in this
46 Parme|        the same with it?~Let us say so.~Then it is the same
47 Parme|         thing?~Yes.~And you may say the name once or oftener?~
48 Parme|      oftener?~Yes.~And when you say it once, you mention that
49 Parme|        name?~True.~Then when we say that the others are other
50 Parme|       It would.~But what do you say to a new point of view?
51 Parme|         there be?~And do we not say that the others being other
52 Parme|   younger than itself?~I should say not.~And what are its relations
53 Parme|         Of course.~And shall we say that the lesser or the greater
54 Parme|    things?~True.~What would you say of another question? Can
55 Parme|      Yes; that is what we shall say.~But the end comes last,
56 Parme|      nor younger, what shall we say? Shall we say as of being
57 Parme|     what shall we say? Shall we say as of being so also of becoming,
58 Parme|    answer.~But I can venture to say, that even if one thing
59 Parme|      relation to a whole?~So we say.~And a whole must necessarily
60 Parme|       Yes.~And we surely cannot say that what is truly one has
61 Parme|         And suppose a person to say:—If greatness is not, if
62 Parme|      the truth, clearly we must say what is. Am I not right?~
63 Parme|        must also affirm that we say what is?~Certainly.~Then,
64 Parme|         change is motion—we may say that?~Yes, motion.~And the
65 Parme|        follow.~Let us do as you say.~If one is not, we ask what
66 Parme|      them?~Just so.~And when we say that a thing is not, do
67 Parme|       Certainly not.~Nor can we say that it stands, if it is
68 Parme|         Of course.~Then we must say that the one which is not
69 Parme|      the argument in a word and say truly: If one is not, then