Dialogue

 1 Parme|     being is many.’ ‘Such is my meaning.’ ‘I see,’ said Socrates,
 2 Parme|    things. But tell me, is your meaning that things become like
 3 Parme|        ideas?’ ‘Yes, that is my meaning.’ ‘And do you suppose the
 4 Parme|      cover to many—that is your meaning?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And would you
 5 Parme|  Socrates. ‘I may illustrate my meaning in this way: one of us has
 6 Parme|      slave to us.—Do you see my meaning?’ ‘Perfectly.’ ‘And absolute
 7 Parme|        all predicates. When the meaning of one has been reduced
 8 Parme|    their strictest arithmetical meaning. That one is three or three
 9 Parme|         have precisely the same meaning; there is no notion of one
10 Parme|       there be a word devoid of meaning, or an idea which is an
11 Parme|        could never have had any meaning, even to himself, if he
12 Parme|        rigid examination of its meaning, as if the general idea
13 Parme|    which had really no distinct meaning. One sort of them, faith,
14 Parme|   perfect representation of our meaning. In like manner when we
15 Parme|         understanding about the meaning of words; because we know
16 Parme|       having first tested their meaning and quality, and having
17 Parme|     done, he said: What is your meaning, Zeno? Do you maintain that
18 Parme|         arguments? Is that your meaning, or have I misunderstood
19 Parme|        said Socrates that is my meaning.~Then each individual partakes
20 Parme| including many—is not that your meaning?~I think so.~And would you
21 Parme|   Socrates.~I may illustrate my meaning in this way, said Parmenides:—
22 Parme|        ourselves. Do you see my meaning?~Yes, said Socrates, I quite
23 Parme|      Socrates, I quite see your meaning.~And will not knowledge—
24 Parme|      Yes; we ought.~What is the meaning of the hypothesis—If the
25 Parme|    knowledge of it, or the very meaning of the words, ‘if one is