Dialogue

 1 Intro|      summa genera of thought, the nature of the proposition, of definition,
 2 Intro|          of Plato. The ‘slippery’ nature of comparison, the danger
 3 Intro|           not even comprehend the nature of Being. The friends of
 4 Intro|           is the enquiry into the nature of Not-being, which occupies
 5 Intro|     dialectical method: (III) the nature of the puzzle about ‘Not-being:’ (
 6 Intro|          sort of hybrid or double nature, of which, except perhaps
 7 Intro|           can. No better image of nature or truth, as an organic
 8 Intro|        define, to ask what is the nature of knowledge, opinion, sensation.
 9 Intro|     consideration a theory of the nature of the negative.~The theory
10 Intro|          times they have a common nature, and the light of a common
11 Intro|           the course of events to nature, art, and chance. Who they
12 Intro|         we sought to discover the nature of knowledge and false opinion.
13 Intro|        and false opinion. But the nature of false opinion seemed
14 Intro|   question is taken up again; the nature of Not-being is detected,
15 Intro|          equally agreed about his nature. Great subjects should be
16 Intro|     proceed to bring to light the nature of the Sophist. Like the
17 Intro|           quite as soon learn the nature of hunting from the vermin-destroyer
18 Intro|         another, of a more subtle nature, which proceeds upon a notion
19 Intro|     number of them imply that the nature of his art is not understood?
20 Intro|            lacks something of the nature of being, and becomes not-being.
21 Intro|         exist, what is the common nature which is attributed to them
22 Intro|           existence, but also the nature of not-being—that nature
23 Intro|          nature of not-being—that nature we have found to be relation.
24 Intro|    Sophist we have to examine the nature of discourse, and there
25 Intro|        the spontaneous working of nature, but by divine reason and
26 Intro|  experience, last in the order of nature and reason. They are assumed,
27 Intro|           may be reminded that in nature there is a centripetal as
28 Intro|           of the divine and human nature, a contradiction appears
29 Intro|      contrary aspects of life and nature. The danger is that they
30 Intro|          and animal to the inward nature of man we arrive at moral
31 Intro|        and observation of man and nature. We are conscious of a Being
32 Intro|          elementary notions about nature. To a certain extent all
33 Intro| interruption of the uniformity of nature the condition of the world
34 Intro|        conceive all the powers of nature and mind gathered up in
35 Intro|          fancies with the laws of nature. The very freedom of the
36 Intro|          saying that this complex nature can contain, even in outline,
37 Intro|           with the divine idea or nature. But we may acknowledge
38  Soph|           to define precisely the nature of each of them is by no
39  Soph|     together and enquire into the nature of the Sophist, first of
40  Soph|       seeking, and which from the nature of the operation is denoted
41  Soph|           must surely express his nature.~STRANGER: Then he must
42  Soph|        and injustice in their own nature, and about things in general,
43  Soph|      confidence describe the real nature of the Sophist.~STRANGER:
44  Soph|          more clearly explain his nature.~THEAETETUS: What is it?~
45  Soph|          determine the number and nature of existences, talked to
46  Soph|          are many in name, but in nature one; this is their mythus,
47  Soph|        lacks something of its own nature?~THEAETETUS: Certainly.~
48  Soph|          each have their separate nature.~THEAETETUS: Yes.~STRANGER:
49  Soph|           result of all, that the nature of being is quite as difficult
50  Soph|        with one another about the nature of essence.~THEAETETUS:
51  Soph|           must then say what that nature is which is common to both
52  Soph|     notion of ours respecting the nature of being, having nothing
53  Soph|           of the enquiry into the nature of it.~THEAETETUS: What
54  Soph|           some third and distinct nature, under which rest and motion
55  Soph|        then, according to its own nature, is neither in motion nor
56  Soph|        speculated at all upon the nature of being, let us put our
57  Soph|           the opposite of its own nature, because partaking of its
58  Soph|        not by reason of their own nature, but because they partake
59  Soph|          of kinds is according to nature, we had already proved before
60  Soph|           of every class; for the nature of the other entering into
61  Soph|        result, since it is of the nature of classes to have communion
62  Soph|         What is it?~STRANGER: The nature of the other appears to
63  Soph|           things; seeing that the nature of the other has a real
64  Soph|      existence, the parts of this nature must equally be supposed
65  Soph|   not-being; and this is the very nature for which the Sophist compelled
66  Soph|          assured existence, and a nature of its own? Just as the
67  Soph|        for we have shown that the nature of the other is, and is
68  Soph|     necessity for determining the nature of discourse presses upon
69  Soph|      moment we must determine the nature of discourse.~STRANGER:
70  Soph|       begin by enquiring into the nature of language, opinion, and
71  Soph|           exhibit him in his true nature, first to ourselves and
72  Soph|        STRANGER: The opinion that nature brings them into being from
73  Soph|      which are said to be made by nature are the work of divine art,