Dialogue

  1 Intro|      putting words in the place of things, the fallacy of arguing ‘
  2 Intro|     writing and speaking about all things, he is still the antithesis
  3 Intro|          the Many were not, if all things were names of the One, and
  4 Intro|     necessary element in all other things that are. We should be careful
  5 Intro|        said with Heracleitus, ‘All things are and are not, and become
  6 Intro|           the Laws, extends to all things, attributing to Providence
  7 Intro|           and is not—as many other things as are not included under
  8 Intro|           Comparisons are slippery things; but for the present let
  9 Intro|          most prominent. Above all things he is a disputant. He will
 10 Intro|            others to dispute about things visible and invisible—about
 11 Intro|         about wrestling, about all things. But can he know all things? ‘
 12 Intro|        things. But can he know all things? ‘He cannot.’ How then can
 13 Intro|       believed by them to know all things.’ You mean to say that he
 14 Intro|            would dispute about all things, but that he would make
 15 Intro|         but that he would make all things, you and me, and all other
 16 Intro|           he said that he knew all things, and could teach them in
 17 Intro|          who professes to make all things, and children, who see his
 18 Intro|       Sophist pretends to know all things, and he, too, can deceive
 19 Intro|            is the most real of all things, and cannot be attributed
 20 Intro|         the world, saying that all things are one; whose doctrine
 21 Intro|       being. And being, if not all things, lacks something of the
 22 Intro|          and motion, and all other things, are incommunicable with
 23 Intro|      refuting them. But (2) if all things have communion with all
 24 Intro|            have communion with all things, motion will rest, and rest
 25 Intro|          affirms that only certain things communicate with certain
 26 Intro|     communicate with certain other things. In the alphabet and the
 27 Intro|        third hypothesis, that some things have communion and others
 28 Intro|    universal, and runs through all things, for each thing is other
 29 Intro|            is other than all other things. Thus there are five principles: (
 30 Intro|       other which runs through all things, being not excepted. And ‘
 31 Intro|          includes and is all other things. And not-being is not the
 32 Intro|           words, attributes to you things which are not as though
 33 Intro|            mind to be the truth of things, and this not by a mere
 34 Intro|          back again and review the things of sense, the opinions of
 35 Intro|          Man is the measure of all things,’ which Socrates presented
 36 Intro|   recognize truly how in all human things there is a thesis and antithesis,
 37 Intro|       single line, and may be many things by turns but not at once.~
 38 Intro|         known. To the Hegelian all things are plain and clear, while
 39 Intro|           knows of course that all things proceed according to law
 40 Intro|          or the difference between things and persons denied, such
 41 Intro|          lives and actions. In all things, if we leave out details,
 42  Soph|            others from conquering, things which exist and have been
 43  Soph|         the hunting after lifeless things having no special name,
 44  Soph|           the hunting after living things may be called animal hunting.~
 45  Soph|       flattery or an art of making things pleasant.~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
 46  Soph|  marionette playing and many other things, which are purchased in
 47  Soph|        their own nature, and about things in general, we have been
 48  Soph|           true.~STRANGER: And when things having motion, and aiming
 49  Soph|      willing to learn any of those things in which he is conscious
 50  Soph|         one another about the same things, in relation to the same
 51  Soph|            in relation to the same things, and in the same respect.
 52  Soph| uninstructed and deformed in those things in which he who would be
 53  Soph|         for they are most slippery things. Nevertheless, let us assume
 54  Soph|            to dispute about divine things, which are invisible to
 55  Soph|          do you say of the visible things in heaven and earth, and
 56  Soph|            about a good many other things. In a word, is not the art
 57  Soph|       power of disputing about all things?~THEAETETUS: Certainly;
 58  Soph|            your young eyes may see things which to our duller sight
 59  Soph|         anybody can understand all things.~THEAETETUS: Happy would
 60  Soph|            have knowledge of those things about which they dispute?~
 61  Soph|         And they dispute about all things?~THEAETETUS: True.~STRANGER:
 62  Soph|     apparent knowledge only of all things, which is not the truth?~
 63  Soph|        knew how to make and do all things, by a single art.~THEAETETUS:
 64  Soph|        single art.~THEAETETUS: All things?~STRANGER: I see that you
 65  Soph|           not.~STRANGER: Under all things, I include you and me, and
 66  Soph|         the gods, and of all other things; and, further, that he can
 67  Soph|         man says that he knows all things, and can teach them to another
 68  Soph|          the most diverse sorts of things.~STRANGER: We know, of course,
 69  Soph|   professes by one art to make all things is really a painter, and
 70  Soph|         makes resemblances of real things which have the same name
 71  Soph|           the wisest of men in all things?~THEAETETUS: Yes; why should
 72  Soph|          see and feel the truth of things, are not the greater part
 73  Soph|            be one of those who see things at a distance only.~STRANGER:
 74  Soph|            is to be reckoned among things which are?~THEAETETUS: Yes,
 75  Soph|           even conceive in thought things which are not or a thing
 76  Soph|         STRANGER: When we speak of things which are not, are we not
 77  Soph|           false opinion think that things which are not are not, or
 78  Soph|        sense they are?~THEAETETUS: Things that are not must be imagined
 79  Soph|            opinion also think that things which most certainly exist
 80  Soph|       asserts the non-existence of things which are, and the existence
 81  Soph|          are, and the existence of things which are not.~THEAETETUS:
 82  Soph|            the world, say that all things are many in name, but in
 83  Soph|         them are dragging down all things from heaven and from the
 84  Soph|     obstinately maintain, that the things only which can be touched
 85  Soph|      follows, if we grant that all things are in motion—upon this
 86  Soph|       gather all into one class of things communicable with one another?
 87  Soph|           one another? Or are some things communicable and others
 88  Soph|         being, some affirming that things ‘are’ truly in motion, and
 89  Soph|         and at another resolve all things, whether making them into
 90  Soph|             if we suppose that all things have the power of communion
 91  Soph|            For, surely, either all things have communion with all;
 92  Soph|           any other thing; or some things communicate with some things
 93  Soph|       things communicate with some things and others not.~THEAETETUS:
 94  Soph|           of intermixture with all things; and again, in divisions,
 95  Soph|           is the same, because all things partake of the same.~THEAETETUS:
 96  Soph|           respect of as many other things as there are; for not-being
 97  Soph|          one, and is not the other things, which are infinite in number.~
 98  Soph|            more correctly from the things represented by the words,
 99  Soph|          same may be said of other things; seeing that the nature
100  Soph|          have not only proved that things which are not are, but we
101  Soph|            is distributed over all things in their relations to one
102  Soph|  difference or other, traverse all things and mutually interpenetrate,
103  Soph|        being is not, and all other things, whether regarded individually
104  Soph|          the proposition, then all things must be true; but if not-being
105  Soph|          there is deceit, then all things must be full of idols and
106  Soph|    STRANGER: And as there are some things which fit one another, and
107  Soph|         fit one another, and other things which do not fit, so there
108  Soph|            And therefore speaks of things which are not as if they
109  Soph|             STRANGER: And say that things are real of you which are
110  Soph|            affirm, and not of real things.~THEAETETUS: Quite true.~
111  Soph|           originally, which causes things to exist, not previously
112  Soph|         the animals and plants, at things which grow upon the earth
113  Soph|         Let me suppose, then, that things which are said to be made
114  Soph|            of divine art, and that things which are made by man out
115  Soph|   subdivision is the making of the things themselves, but the two
116  Soph|          the elements out of which things are made—fire, water, and