Dialogue

 1 Phileb|    property in all of them does he mean to indicate by the term ‘
 2 Phileb|            weapons; and by this, I mean a new classification of
 3 Phileb|            promote happiness is no mean preference of expediency
 4 Phileb|           with great subtlety. The mean or measure is now made the
 5 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean, Socrates? Do you think
 6 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Why, I mean to
 7 Phileb|         you mean?~SOCRATES: Why, I mean to say, that in self-defence
 8 Phileb|             PROTARCHUS: How do you mean?~SOCRATES: Shall I, Protarchus,
 9 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: The sciences
10 Phileb|         attack.~PROTARCHUS: Do you mean, when a person says that
11 Phileb|             We understand what you mean; but is there no charm by
12 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Some god or divine
13 Phileb|             PROTARCHUS: How do you mean?~SOCRATES: Let there be
14 Phileb|           that is the life which I mean.~PROTARCHUS: There can be
15 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Let us divide
16 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean, my good friend?~SOCRATES:
17 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean, and what proof have you
18 Phileb|         class of the infinite, you mean?~SOCRATES: Yes; and now
19 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean by the class of the finite?~
20 Phileb|      understand; you seem to me to mean that the various opposites,
21 Phileb|         that I understand you: you mean to say that the infinite
22 Phileb|            class, understand me to mean any offspring of these,
23 Phileb|        exists in us, and that of a mean sort, and not in any way
24 Phileb|            fire small and weak and mean? But the fire in the universe
25 Phileb|            a presiding cause of no mean power, which orders and
26 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean to say
27 Phileb|           do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean to say that their natural
28 Phileb|  PROTARCHUS: What phenomena do you mean?~SOCRATES: Hunger, for example,
29 Phileb|     neutral state.~PROTARCHUS: You mean that he may live neither
30 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: I must first
31 Phileb|   oblivious, do not suppose that I mean forgetfulness in a literal
32 Phileb|            SOCRATES: And do we not mean by recollection the power
33 Phileb|          we begin?~SOCRATES: Do we mean anything when we say ‘a
34 Phileb|      PROTARCHUS: Yes.~SOCRATES: We mean to say that he ‘is empty’?~
35 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean by ‘intermediate’?~SOCRATES:
36 Phileb|         intermediate’?~SOCRATES: I mean when a person is in actual
37 Phileb| expectation.~SOCRATES: What do you mean, Protarchus, by the two
38 Phileb|   pleasures.~SOCRATES: What do you mean? I am afraid that we are
39 Phileb|            question.~SOCRATES: You mean that opinion admits of truth
40 Phileb|          true and false opinion, I mean.~PROTARCHUS: Very true.~
41 Phileb|          you say, ‘Very much,’ you mean to imply that all these
42 Phileb|             PROTARCHUS: How do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean to say
43 Phileb|           do you mean?~SOCRATES: I mean to say that a man must be
44 Phileb|        there were?~PROTARCHUS: You mean, what would happen if the
45 Phileb|          and their words are of no mean authority.~SOCRATES: Of
46 Phileb|            course, for they are no mean authorities themselves;
47 Phileb|             Shall I tell you how I mean to escape from them? And
48 Phileb|        would you understand him to mean by that statement?~PROTARCHUS:
49 Phileb|           that by pleasure he must mean the negative of pain.~SOCRATES:
50 Phileb| distinguish:—do not imagine that I mean to ask whether those who
51 Phileb|            pleasure, and what they mean by pleasure who deny her
52 Phileb|           pleasures.~SOCRATES: You mean the pleasures which are
53 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Why, do we not
54 Phileb|            Delphi.~PROTARCHUS: You mean, Socrates, ‘Know thyself.’~
55 Phileb|           cannot.~SOCRATES: Do you mean to say that I must make
56 Phileb|      Socrates, I must ask what you mean.~SOCRATES: My meaning is
57 Phileb|            to be plainer. I do not mean by beauty of form such beauty
58 Phileb|         argument, understand me to mean straight lines and circles,
59 Phileb|           single pure tone, then I mean to say that they are not
60 Phileb|           PROTARCHUS: What do they mean?~SOCRATES: I will explain
61 Phileb|         dear Protarchus, what they mean, by putting a question.~
62 Phileb|         your question.~SOCRATES: I mean, O my Protarchus, to ask
63 Phileb|         speaking, and what do they mean?~SOCRATES: I am speaking
64 Phileb|         separate them?~SOCRATES: I mean to say, that if arithmetic,
65 Phileb|         PROTARCHUS: I see that you mean arithmetic, and the kindred
66 Phileb|            with him.~SOCRATES: You mean to say that you would like
67 Phileb|         man.~SOCRATES: What do you mean? Do you mean that you are
68 Phileb|           What do you mean? Do you mean that you are to throw into
69 Phileb|              What pleasures do you mean?’~PROTARCHUS: Likely enough.~
70 Phileb|            PROTARCHUS: What do you mean?~SOCRATES: Every man knows
71 Phileb|           that in measure, and the mean, and the suitable, and the