Dialogue

  1 Intro|        Plato. The summa genera of thought, the nature of the proposition,
  2 Intro|         and revision. He had once thought as he says, speaking by
  3 Intro| Transferring this to language and thought, we have no difficulty in
  4 Intro|           in the decline of Greek thought there was no original voice
  5 Intro|        which another trace may be thought to be discerned in his adoption
  6 Intro|         more questions, and never thought of applying the categories
  7 Intro|           not mere instruments of thought. They are too rough-hewn
  8 Intro|          is the leading religious thought of the later works of Plato.
  9 Intro|          a negation of fact or of thought (ou and me). Lastly, there
 10 Intro|       attains by a real effort of thought is to us a familiar and
 11 Intro|      remote relation. There human thought is in process of disorganization;
 12 Intro|         of a natural connexion in thought and speech, which Megarian
 13 Intro|        once replies that they are thought to be three; but to explain
 14 Intro|          senses, and in being, by thought and the mind?’ ‘Yes.’ And
 15 Intro|         soul? for there can be no thought without soul, nor can soul
 16 Intro|           motion. But neither can thought or mind be devoid of some
 17 Intro|         thus not only speech, but thought and opinion and imagination
 18 Intro|          both true and false. For thought is only the process of silent
 19 Intro|         beyond the reach of human thought, like stars shining in a
 20 Intro|         of these elementary ideas thought was impossible. There was
 21 Intro|         limit or determination of thought to another and back again
 22 Intro|        certain ideas and forms of thought. And there are many speculations
 23 Intro|          language and of ordinary thought into which philosophy had
 24 Intro|         tries to go beyond common thought, and to combine abstractions
 25 Intro|      other. Both are creations of thought, and the difference in kind
 26 Intro|        and knowledge as stages of thought which have always existed
 27 Intro|         from one determination of thought to another, receiving each
 28 Intro|          until the cycle of human thought and existence is complete.
 29 Intro|          but stages or moments of thought which have a necessary place
 30 Intro|        the essence is detached in thought from the outward form, (
 31 Intro|      object, the natural order of thought is at last found to include
 32 Intro|       severed from one another in thought, only to be perpetually
 33 Intro|         appears in the kingdom of thought. The divisions which arise
 34 Intro|          divisions which arise in thought between the physical and
 35 Intro|      human faculties into Laws of Thought; they become a part of the
 36 Intro|           present distinctions of thought and language had no existence.~
 37 Intro|          his natural faculties of thought and expression without increasing
 38 Intro|          as of light. In forms of thought which by most of us are
 39 Intro|        mere categories, he saw or thought that he saw a gradual revelation
 40 Intro|           the historical order of thought.~(a) If we ask how opposites
 41 Intro|            We may ponder over the thought of number, reminding ourselves
 42 Intro|          the successive layers of thought to the deposits of geological
 43 Intro|           to him the beginning of thought. Hitherto there had only
 44 Intro|          of the so-called laws of thought (‘All A = A,’ or, in the
 45 Intro|        assistance of new forms of thought. One of these forms is the
 46 Intro|           a ‘most gracious aid to thought.’~The doctrine of opposite
 47 Intro|   doctrine of opposite moments of thought or of progression by antagonism,
 48 Intro|         highest notion of mind or thought, we may descend by a series
 49 Intro|           to the highest being or thought. Metaphysic is the negation
 50 Intro|       supplied new instruments of thought for the solution of metaphysical
 51 Intro|         to wander in the mazes of thought which he has opened to us.
 52 Intro|           lightened the burden of thought because he has shown us
 53 Intro|          and expression, forms of thought are useful, but no further:—
 54 Intro|       modes in which the world of thought can be conceived. There
 55 Intro|         from one determination of thought to another. But we begin
 56 Intro|    another and from the whole. He thought that he had supplied an
 57 Intro|        disturbers of the order of thought Hegel is reluctant to acknowledge.~
 58 Intro|       time as well as an order of thought. But the assumption that
 59 Intro|         even of the beginnings of thought. And in later systems forms
 60 Intro|         in later systems forms of thought are too numerous and complex
 61 Intro|     Heracleitus, Hegel’s order of thought in the history of philosophy
 62 Intro|         as his order of religious thought by recent discoveries in
 63 Intro|         logical determinations of thought, or ‘categories’ as they
 64 Intro|           the historical order of thought has been adapted to the
 65 Intro|           adapted to the order of thought in history. There is unfortunately
 66 Intro|         the subsequent history of thought. But Hegel employs some
 67 Intro|           These are the grades of thought under which we conceive
 68 Intro|           considered the forms of thought which are best adapted for
 69 Intro|         in some determinations of thought which we require. We cannot
 70 Intro|   categories or determinations of thought in different parts of his
 71 Intro|            so Hegel seems to have thought that he gave his philosophy
 72 Intro|      chance either in language or thought; and perhaps there is no
 73 Intro|         language. He speaks as if thought, instead of being identical
 74 Intro|        why of the common forms of thought some are rejected by him,
 75 Intro|      would sink under the load of thought. Again, in every process
 76 Intro|          the attempt to criticize thought we have lost the power of
 77 Intro| corrective of popular language or thought, but should still allow
 78 Intro|   supersede persons. The world of thought, though sometimes described
 79 Intro|           the primeval sources of thought and belief, do we suppose
 80 Intro|         if regarded as the single thought of a Divine Being, can be
 81 Intro|         of ideas. Whatever may be thought of his own system it will
 82 Intro|        the natural order of human thought with the history of philosophy,
 83 Intro|       connexion in the history of thought. But we recognize that their
 84 Intro|        himself as creating God in thought. He was the servant of his
 85 Intro|        done more to explain Greek thought than all other writers put
 86  Soph|         he would tell us, what is thought about them in Italy, and
 87  Soph|        variety of names which are thought ridiculous.~THEAETETUS:
 88  Soph|         be no doubt that they are thought ridiculous, Theaetetus;
 89  Soph|         neither disputed nor were thought to dispute rightly, or being
 90  Soph|         dispute rightly, or being thought to do so were deemed no
 91  Soph|         words or even conceive in thought things which are not or
 92  Soph|    neither be spoken, uttered, or thought, but that it is unthinkable,
 93  Soph|        STRANGER: I tremble at the thought of what I have said, and
 94  Soph|          meaning, whereas we once thought that we understood you,
 95  Soph| participate with the soul through thought in true essence; and essence
 96  Soph|           THEAETETUS: I certainly thought that we were; and I do not
 97  Soph|           arises in the region of thought and in speech.~THEAETETUS:
 98  Soph|          saying?~STRANGER: What I thought that you intended when you
 99  Soph|           STRANGER: And therefore thought, opinion, and imagination
100  Soph|           gain.~STRANGER: Are not thought and speech the same, with
101  Soph|    exception, that what is called thought is the unuttered conversation
102  Soph|       STRANGER: But the stream of thought which flows through the
103  Soph|          true and false, and that thought is the conversation of the
104  Soph|        said, Theaetetus, and if I thought that you were one of those
105  Soph|       fail in their attempt to be thought just, when they are not?