Dialogue

 1 Parme|          difficulties induce you to give up universal ideas, what
 2 Parme|            said Socrates; ‘will you give me an example?’ ‘You must
 3 Parme|             had he intended only to give an illustration of method.
 4 Parme|        thinks, and his answers will give me time to breathe.’ ‘I
 5 Parme|             and taken together they give twice three and thrice two:
 6 Parme|        acknowledge that they seldom give a perfect representation
 7 Parme|     practising; at the same time, I give you credit for saying to
 8 Parme|             entreated Parmenides to give an example of the process.
 9 Parme|        thinks; and his answers will give me time to breathe.~I am
10 Parme| illustration the case of names: You give a name to a thing?~Yes.~
11 Parme|              and to no other do you give the name?~True.~Then when