Dialogue

 1 Parme|          The consideration of this difficulty has led a recent critic (
 2 Parme|       Socrates, found out the real difficulty of maintaining abstract
 3 Parme| maintaining abstract ideas.’ ‘What difficulty?’ ‘The greatest of all perhaps
 4 Parme|           not care to consider the difficulty in reference to visible
 5 Parme|          many of the one. The real difficulty begins with the relations
 6 Parme|       modern philosophy.~The first difficulty which Parmenides raises
 7 Parme|         same time, he points out a difficulty, which appears to be involved—
 8 Parme|        Socrates meets the supposed difficulty by a flash of light, which
 9 Parme|           another without end. The difficulty belongs in fact to the Megarian
10 Parme|          ought to occasion no more difficulty in speculation than a perpetually
11 Parme|          gods and men? This is the difficulty of philosophy in all ages:
12 Parme|          Parmenides draws out this difficulty with great clearness. According
13 Parme|     obsolete; the second remains a difficulty for us as well as for the
14 Parme|              In some respects, the difficulty pressed harder upon the
15 Parme|         Ideas was the metaphysical difficulty of the age in which he lived;
16 Parme|  philosophy, and, like the similar difficulty in the Philebus, is really
17 Parme|            opposites might without difficulty be shown to unite in them.~
18 Parme|       really at all explained. The difficulty arises out of the imperfection
19 Parme|            no longer regarded as a difficulty at all. The only way of
20 Parme|             The true answer to the difficulty here thrown out is the establishment
21 Parme|      Sophist. Plato, in urging the difficulty of his own doctrine of Ideas,
22 Parme|         extended to Ideas: (3) The difficulty of participating in greatness,
23 Parme|      historical interest; and with difficulty throw ourselves back into
24 Parme|         Socrates, how great is the difficulty of affirming the ideas to
25 Parme|     understand a small part of the difficulty which is involved if you
26 Parme|            from other things.~What difficulty? he said.~There are many,
27 Parme|       there appears to me to be no difficulty in showing by this method
28 Parme|            of a part, for then the difficulty of the whole will recur;
29 Parme|           as may be proved without difficulty of them, since they have