Dialogue

 1 Phileb|      who has withdrawn from the argument, is several times brought
 2 Phileb|         previous discussion. An argument respecting the comparative
 3 Phileb|      Philebus and Socrates. The argument is now transferred to Protarchus,
 4 Phileb|   understanding about the ‘high argument’ of the one and the many.~
 5 Phileb|        if we are to pursue this argument further, we shall require
 6 Phileb|        is the application?’ The argument is in play, and desires
 7 Phileb|       but ask, on behalf of the argument, what are the highest truths
 8 Phileb|        is now added; and so the argument is complete, and may be
 9 Phileb|       kinds. (Compare a similar argument urged by one of the latest
10 Phileb|     especially hardly any other argument can be allowed to have weight
11 Phileb|       the rights of others, the argument that these actions regarded
12 Phileb|         of the two sides of the argument?~PHILEBUS: Nothing could
13 Phileb|  Philebus, have handed over the argument to me, and have no longer
14 Phileb|        we will proceed with the argument.~SOCRATES: Then let us begin
15 Phileb| therefore do not rely upon this argument, which would go to prove
16 Phileb|        will this invalidate the argument?~SOCRATES: Why, I shall
17 Phileb|       art of disputing; and the argument will be blown away and lost.
18 Phileb|      and another;—would not the argument founder and disappear like
19 Phileb|      the principle on which the argument rests.~PROTARCHUS: What
20 Phileb|       bear upon us and upon the argument?~SOCRATES: Philebus is right
21 Phileb|         this has to do with the argument?~PHILEBUS: Yes, that is
22 Phileb|         the whole charge of the argument, but if neither of us were
23 Phileb|       Callias; and the previous argument showed that if we are not
24 Phileb|       answer you, Socrates; the argument has taken away from me the
25 Phileb|         has been smitten by the argument, and is laid low. I must
26 Phileb|     until you have finished the argument.~SOCRATES: Heavens! Protarchus,
27 Phileb|      And must I then finish the argument?~PROTARCHUS: Of course you
28 Phileb|        SOCRATES: Then, says the argument, there is never any end
29 Phileb|        that if I could hear the argument repeated by you once or
30 Phileb|        asserted in the previous argument, all things that were divided
31 Phileb|       all that in the preceding argument we placed under the unity
32 Phileb|  consider the next stage of the argument.~PROTARCHUS: Let me hear.~
33 Phileb|         any way relevant to the argument, and whatever is the conclusion
34 Phileb|      SOCRATES: Why, because the argument shows that the endeavour
35 Phileb|         True.~SOCRATES: And the argument, having proved that memory
36 Phileb|        Most true.~SOCRATES: The argument will not allow that our
37 Phileb|        further observation; the argument appears to me to imply that
38 Phileb|      enquiry is relevant to the argument.~PROTARCHUS: Surely.~SOCRATES:
39 Phileb|    would rather show by another argument that there are many false
40 Phileb|     approach and grasp this new argument.~PROTARCHUS: Proceed.~SOCRATES:
41 Phileb|   Protarchus, does not help the argument.~PROTARCHUS: Why not, Socrates?~
42 Phileb|        avoid the brunt of their argument. Shall I tell you how I
43 Phileb|         I did not introduce the argument, O Protarchus, with any
44 Phileb|   Certainly.~SOCRATES: Then the argument shows that when we laugh
45 Phileb|         True.~SOCRATES: And the argument implies that there are combinations
46 Phileb|       my meaning; but, says the argument, understand me to mean straight
47 Phileb| examples in illustration of the argument about pleasure; one such
48 Phileb|     difficulty, Protarchus; the argument is only in play, and insinuates
49 Phileb|    understand.~SOCRATES: As the argument proceeds, my boy, I dare
50 Phileb|      told by you.~SOCRATES: The argument has all along been seeking
51 Phileb|       SOCRATES: And has not the argument in what has preceded, already
52 Phileb|        And just now did not the argument first designate a particular
53 Phileb|         very question which the argument is asking.~SOCRATES: And
54 Phileb|       and urge on behalf of the argument a single point.~PROTARCHUS:
55 Phileb|        be a fair summary of the argument.~PROTARCHUS: Let me hear.~
56 Phileb|       to my way of thinking the argument is now completed, and may
57 Phileb|    Clearly, and yet perhaps the argument had better be pursued to
58 Phileb|      entirely disproven in this argument, because they are both wanting
59 Phileb|        first to go away from an argument.~THE END~