Dialogue

 1 Intro|  comparison, the danger of putting words in the place of things,
 2 Intro|            the frequent use of the words ‘essence,’ ‘power,’ ‘generation,’ ‘
 3 Intro|        dissembler and juggler with words.~The chief points of interest
 4 Intro|        interesting question:—~Many words are used both in a general
 5 Intro|           Sophist’ is one of those words of which the meaning has
 6 Intro|            the god.’ Hence the two words, like the characters represented
 7 Intro|         divider of the meanings of words, the teacher of rhetoric,
 8 Intro|        already a bad name; and the words of the young Hippocrates,
 9 Intro|          Changes in the meaning of words can only be made with great
10 Intro|            Socrates, repeating the words—‘I should like to ask our
11 Intro|            ears, by the mummery of words, and induce them to believe
12 Intro|        that not-being is.’ And the words prove themselves! Not-being
13 Intro|     conceived of as a whole—in the words of Parmenides, ‘like every
14 Intro|         they cannot help using the words ‘is,’ ‘apart,’ ‘from others,’
15 Intro|            is the meaning of these words, ‘same’ and ‘other’? Are
16 Intro|        spirit which criticizes the words of another according to
17 Intro|            the same question about words which we have already answered
18 Intro|         admit of combination? Some words have a meaning when combined,
19 Intro|           no meaning. One class of words describes action, another
20 Intro|      second. But no combination of words can be formed without a
21 Intro|        sentence is composed of two words, and one of these must be
22 Intro|          is not true, or, in other words, attributes to you things
23 Intro|         not divine / juggling with words / phantastic or unreal /
24 Intro|         may truly apply to him the words in which Plato describes
25 Intro|            passed away. In his own words, there is an absurdity in
26 Intro|        least comprehension. Of all words they may be truly said to
27 Intro|           them, as for example the words ‘Being,’ ‘essence,’ ‘matter,’ ‘
28 Intro|           from that in which other words have come down to us? Have
29 Intro|         common life. He uses a few words only which are borrowed
30 Intro|            been,’ the third to the words ‘has been’ and ‘is’ combined.
31 Intro|             is’ combined. In other words, the first sphere is immediate,
32 Intro|            use of idiomatic German words. But it may be doubted whether
33 Intro|     successful. First because such words as ‘in sich seyn,’ ‘an sich
34 Intro| explanation. The simplicity of the words contrasts with the hardness
35 Intro|         often seems to trifle with words. He gives etymologies which
36 Intro|       Heracliteans of old, have no words in which our meaning can
37 Intro|        others quite as much as his words. What is the teaching of
38 Intro|       logic. We cannot affirm that words have no meaning when taken
39  Soph|         And when the war is one of words, it may be termed controversy?~
40  Soph|         wise particular about fine words, if she may be only allowed
41  Soph|         They cross-examine a man’s words, when he thinks that he
42  Soph|         the hearts of young men by words poured through their ears,
43  Soph|           the consideration of the words themselves?~THEAETETUS:
44  Soph|            a man either express in words or even conceive in thought
45  Soph|             in using each of these words in the singular, did I not
46  Soph|           exists in opinion and in words; for in maintaining this,
47  Soph|           forgive me, and, as your words imply, not be altogether
48  Soph|            when he speaks of false words, or false opinion, or idols,
49  Soph|           are compelled to use the words ‘to be,’ ‘apart,’ ‘from
50  Soph|           the meaning of these two words, ‘same’ and ‘other’? Are
51  Soph|           and me, when prefixed to words, do not imply opposition,
52  Soph|           only difference from the words, or more correctly from
53  Soph|          things represented by the words, which follow them.~THEAETETUS:
54  Soph|            his pleasure is to drag words this way and that, the argument
55  Soph|         understand you to say that words which have a meaning when
56  Soph|         may be connected, but that words which have no meaning when
57  Soph|        mean?~STRANGER: I mean that words like ‘walks,’ ‘runs,’ ‘sleeps,’
58  Soph|              sleeps,’ or any other words which denote action, however
59  Soph|               horse,’ or any other words which denote agents—neither
60  Soph|           in this way of stringing words together do you attain to
61  Soph|       mingled with nouns; then the words fit, and the smallest combination
62  Soph|           and to this connexion of words we give the name of discourse.~
63  Soph|          creation, the juggling of words, a creation human, and not