Dialogue

 1 Parme|        in the same form. For the truth is, that the Platonic Ideas
 2 Parme|          corresponds to absolute truth and being, and particular
 3 Parme|          knowledge to particular truth and being.’ Clearly.’ ‘And
 4 Parme| knowledge which is of subjective truth, having many kinds, general
 5 Parme|   dialectic while you are young, truth will elude your grasp.’ ‘
 6 Parme|          the intelligence of the truth.’ ‘What you are suggesting
 7 Parme|           Neither realism is the truth, nor nominalism is the truth,
 8 Parme|     truth, nor nominalism is the truth, but conceptualism; and
 9 Parme|          Parmenides with another truth or half-truth of later philosophy, ‘
10 Parme|         great though unconscious truth (shall we say?) or error,
11 Parme|          the chasm between human truth and absolute truth, between
12 Parme|         human truth and absolute truth, between gods and men? This
13 Parme|          have any criterion of a truth beyond and independent of
14 Parme|          anticipation of a great truth or error, exercised a wonderful
15 Parme|         the best expression of a truth higher than either (compare
16 Parme|         the impossibility of any truth. But this is not the spirit
17 Parme|       more precise attainment of truth. The same remark applies
18 Parme|        in other. And if there is truth in what has preceded, one
19 Parme|     attributes or qualities. The truth seems to be rather the opposite
20 Parme|      critics or diviners’ of the truth of his own, and of the Eleatic
21 Parme|    unmeaning conclusion. But the truth is, that he is carrying
22 Parme|     which end in nothing. But in truth he is trying to get rid
23 Parme|         with Bacon, ‘Let us make truth by experiment,’ or ‘From
24 Parme|      writers who profess to base truth entirely upon fact. In an
25 Parme|         deceiving the world. The truth is, that these writings
26 Parme|     knowledge—answer to absolute truth?~Certainly.~And each kind
27 Parme|         have, will answer to the truth which we have; and again,
28 Parme|       now that you are young, or truth will elude your grasp.~And
29 Parme|       perfectly and see the real truth.~That, Parmenides, is a
30 Parme|        which the mind can attain truth and wisdom. And therefore,
31 Parme|          we should not speak the truth in saying that the one is
32 Parme|         not. But if we speak the truth, clearly we must say what
33 Parme|      affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or