Dialogue

 1 Phileb|          does not appear; though dialectic may be thought to correspond
 2 Phileb|       originated in the restless dialectic of Zeno, who sought to prove
 3 Phileb|        cleared up by the help of dialectic.~To us the problem of the
 4 Phileb|          in the Republic, towers dialectic, which is the science of
 5 Phileb|  relation in which they stand to dialectic is obscure in the Republic,
 6 Phileb|       attain truth by the aid of dialectic; such at least we naturally
 7 Phileb|      nous or mind is assigned to dialectic. (2) It is remarkable (see
 8 Phileb|         this does not prove that dialectic is not the purest and most
 9 Phileb|   difference between eristic and dialectic. And the right way of proceeding
10 Phileb|         of every rational man is dialectic, or the science of being,
11 Phileb|          am not maintaining that dialectic is the greatest or usefullest,
12 Phileb|         in the highest degree by dialectic. And do not let us appeal
13 Phileb| philosophy; the natural claim of dialectic to be the Queen of the Sciences
14 Phileb|    disappearance of the Platonic dialectic, which in the Aristotelian
15 Phileb|          of disputation and true dialectic.~PROTARCHUS: I think that
16 Phileb|   SOCRATES: And yet, Protarchus, dialectic will refuse to acknowledge
17 Phileb|    PROTARCHUS: And pray, what is dialectic?~SOCRATES: Clearly the science