Dialogue

 1 Parme|           favour this opinion.~In answer, it might be sufficient
 2 Parme|     Socrates attempt to offer any answer to them. The perplexities
 3 Parme|           in the Philebus, and no answer is given to them. Nor have
 4 Parme|         from which he was able to answer them, is a groundless assumption.
 5 Parme|           Socrates; ‘but will you answer me a question? I should
 6 Parme|           not an easy question to answer.’ ‘I should imagine the
 7 Parme|    monopolise the whole. The only answer to this is, that ‘partaking’
 8 Parme|          which is indeed the true answer ‘that the ideas are in our
 9 Parme| philosophy will not admit of this answer, which is repelled by Parmenides
10 Parme|           must be made to find an answer to them; for, as Socrates
11 Parme|          said Zeno. ‘And who will answer me? Shall I propose the
12 Parme|         rest, or rest motion? The answer to this question will throw
13 Parme|       notion of Being. No one can answer the questions which Parmenides
14 Parme|          the human mind. The true answer to the difficulty here thrown
15 Parme|        affirmation of the one. My answer is addressed to the partisans
16 Parme|           mean absolute knowledge—answer to absolute truth?~Certainly.~
17 Parme|           absolute knowledge will answer to each kind of absolute
18 Parme|     knowledge which we have, will answer to the truth which we have;
19 Parme|           said Zeno.~And who will answer me? he said. Shall I propose
20 Parme|          service. Ask, and I will answer.~Parmenides proceeded: 1.
21 Parme|            or otherwise?~I cannot answer.~But I can venture to say,